WHAT IS HAPPY?  by Sharee Crute -October, November 2007  Heart & Soul  Magazine Let me share with you my quotes from this wonderful article on Happiness, appearing in October in Heart &Soul Magazine. THE CULTURE CRISIS …The answer (to the pursuit of happiness for black women) says positive psychology expert Barbara Becker Holstein* is to […]

The field of Positive Psychology research is exploding.  As a positive pscyhologist I am always concerned that people get a sense of what happiness is really all about.  It does take work to be happy.  However, it certainly takes work and strain to be unhappy.  So we might as well work on happiness.  In order […]

I want to share a wonderful happening with all of you.  I have a new ‘penpal’ except in today’s world of technology she is a computer pal.  She lives in Australia and writes a wonderful column for www.religionandspirituality.com  And the nicest thing of all, is that she wrote about my new book, THE TRUTH, I’m […]

"Children, friends and pets are more likely to make us smile than a big wad of cash, according to a new survey. The AC Nielsen survey, polled 1471 Australians to find out what made them smile. The saying that ‘money can’t buy happiness’ was confirmed in the survey which revealed 91 per cent of the […]

This quote is from Alexandra Stoddard’s book, Gracious Living in a New World. "One day of optimism is a start.  A day can be a microcosm, a thiny representation of all our days, of our whole life.  There is no reason why the lessons of our one positive day could not stand for what we […]

I was with my two grandchildren and the four year old girl was singing a song.  Her brother, age 6, said to her, "Stop singing that song!"  She said, of course, "No, I want to sing this song."  He said, "It’s not real.  You made it up."  She said, "It is real, I made it […]

If you are at all like many girls and women in the United States, Nancy Drew served as an important figure in your life at one time or another.  For me, she was VERY important when I was nine, ten, and even eleven.  I would wait with high anticipation if I knew my mother was […]

I was leading a discussion with a group of women.  The topic was my new book, THE TRUTH, I’m Ten, I’m Smart and I Know Everything.   I was reading excerpts to the ladies and the topic of the Flavors of Our Lives came up.  The woman who brought it up put it this way: the […]