Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely.

Although everyone keeps talking about holiday depression, hospital admissions for depression actually go down in December. February and March are high-risk months, probably for biological reasons,

To try for a perfect holiday is really an exercise in mental cruelty because there really is no such thing as perfect, so what you've got to do is make it your holiday.

The truth is that stress goes up because women add all their new roles to their old roles without crossing anything off their list,

I like to do a face steam, so, heat up a flannel, press it onto your face and then press a cold one on afterwards to close the pores. It's inexpensive!

My mother was 13 when I was born. My childhood was pretty frantic, to say the least. My mother left when I was about 5, and Daddy started me singing in clubs. Then I started singing on the radio in Oklahoma City when I was 7.