http://www.examiner.com/x-11415-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner?cid=exrss-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner en-us Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:31:25 -0700 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:36:28 -0700 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.examiner.com/x-11415-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner~y2009m11d19-Play-the-Great-American-Smokeout-Game?cid=exrss-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner I tried a little non-smoking experiment that I recommend to you in honor of Great American Smokeout day. At a party I went to two days after I had quit smoking again, I consciously decided to feel really uncomfortable. The host, my only friend, wa... living in the moment Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:36:28 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-11415-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner~y2009m11d19-Play-the-Great-American-Smokeout-Game?cid=exrss-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-11415-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner~y2009m11d6-Fortune-cookie-says-Learning-to-stop-yourself?cid=exrss-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner Consider passive activities that, sadly, get turned into active ones - like going to the bathroom with your laptop. Driving - where you sit, steer and watch - takes little energy. Sleeping, even less. But if you're simultaneously texting, talk... Fortune Cookie Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:55:09 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-11415-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner~y2009m11d6-Fortune-cookie-says-Learning-to-stop-yourself?cid=exrss-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-11415-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner~y2009m10d27-Mary-Riedel-takes-her-humanitarian-streak-seriously?cid=exrss-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner Just two months ago, Mary Reidel gave up her job in San Francisco to begin a new humanitarian role  bringing microloans to impoverished borrowers in the Philippines. She searched for the right career her whole life, but once Riedel began disc... Corporate Dropouts Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:01:44 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-11415-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner~y2009m10d27-Mary-Riedel-takes-her-humanitarian-streak-seriously?cid=exrss-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-11415-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner~y2009m10d20-Fortune-cookie-says-The-late-show-is-a-moms-best-friend?cid=exrss-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner You can have your babies and go to the movies, too. It goes like this: The little ones go down around 7 or 8, and reliably sleep through the night. Hubbie, who is vegging on the couch, is on standby with cuddles and bottles if any restlessness hap... Fortune Cookie Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:52:22 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-11415-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner~y2009m10d20-Fortune-cookie-says-The-late-show-is-a-moms-best-friend?cid=exrss-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-11415-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner~y2009m10d14-Fortune-cookie-says-Go-to-luck-school?cid=exrss-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner Out of work leprechaun. Photo by Scarabanza via flickr. Being born lucky is not the only way. Luck is learnable, it turns out, according to an article by Dr. Richard Wiseman, a psychologist who has been studying lucky and unlucky people for the last... Fortune Cookie Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:15:06 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-11415-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner~y2009m10d14-Fortune-cookie-says-Go-to-luck-school?cid=exrss-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-11415-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner~y2009m10d7-Fortune-cookie-says-Warm-your-hands-and-feet--with-your-mind?cid=exrss-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner Photo by just.Luc via flickr commons The cooling weather heralds one dreaded thing: the return of cold hands and freezing feet. Long term stress is one possible reason for chronically cold extremities, according to alternative health doctor John W.... Fortune Cookie Wed, 07 Oct 2009 03:01:09 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-11415-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner~y2009m10d7-Fortune-cookie-says-Warm-your-hands-and-feet--with-your-mind?cid=exrss-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-11415-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner~y2009m10d1-Fortune-cookie-says-The-drunkest-philosopher-on-Mad-Men?cid=exrss-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner Drink up, incorrigible mad man, "Roger Sterling!"  Lovable turd Roger from Mad Men said in a recent episode, “My mother was right – you should never be conspicuously happy. People don’t like it.” Wake up call: ... Happiness at large Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:06:21 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-11415-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner~y2009m10d1-Fortune-cookie-says-The-drunkest-philosopher-on-Mad-Men?cid=exrss-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-11415-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner~y2009m9d24-Jazz-man-Greg-Johnson-lets-intuition-lead?cid=exrss-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner Johnson at Laughing Tiger Studios. Is he the laughing tiger?Greg Johnson sat in a cubicle for 20 years. Now the Novato musician sits at his grand piano, composing, making albums and, in his latest adventure, masterminding a radical new music school.... Corporate Dropouts Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:03:23 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-11415-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner~y2009m9d24-Jazz-man-Greg-Johnson-lets-intuition-lead?cid=exrss-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-11415-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner~y2009m9d22-Fortune-cookie-says-Support-your-fix-public-radio-junkies?cid=exrss-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner $20 a quarter for good karma year round. Photo by AComment via flickr.     If you pay $5 a peach because it's fresh, local and organic, surely the same applies to what you feed your ears. As good, overeducated Norcalians, we like our bad n... Fortune Cookie Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:29:41 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-11415-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner~y2009m9d22-Fortune-cookie-says-Support-your-fix-public-radio-junkies?cid=exrss-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-11415-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner~y2009m9d18-Fortune-cookie-says-Word-of--the-day-is-funemployment?cid=exrss-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner This little girl is really 44 years old. Photo by Micah A. Ponce via flickr.As in quitting for fun. As in take the money and run. The funemployed "take advantage of being out a job to have the time of their life" according to Urban Diction... Fortune Cookie Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:25:47 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-11415-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner~y2009m9d18-Fortune-cookie-says-Word-of--the-day-is-funemployment?cid=exrss-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-11415-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner~y2009m9d15-Career-counselor-brings-dead-ends-to-life?cid=exrss-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner   Career midwife Dr. Elayne Chou turns talk into action.You can’t make happen what you can’t imagine. Enter Berkeley career counselor and therapist Dr. Elayne Chou, hired to connect hearts to minds to dollar signs. Here she advises f... Corporate Dropouts Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:21:10 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-11415-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner~y2009m9d15-Career-counselor-brings-dead-ends-to-life?cid=exrss-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-11415-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner~y2009m9d9-Fortune-cookie-says-Meet-a-neighbor?cid=exrss-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner   Neighborhoods - and neigbhbors -look better through a wineglass.   Photo by bcmom via flickr creative commons.   Sugar’s nice, but some day you’ll also need extra security, child/pet care, referrals and favors. Of all soc... Wed, 09 Sep 2009 02:40:42 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-11415-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner~y2009m9d9-Fortune-cookie-says-Meet-a-neighbor?cid=exrss-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-11415-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner~y2009m9d3-Why-these-local-corporate-dropouts-are-smiling?cid=exrss-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner Hair is a good start. Photo by Martin Kingsley via flickr Creative Commons Corporate Dropouts, my new interview series, launches with a story a week. They're ordinary locals like us, who left mainstream life to make a paying career of their passion... Corporate Dropouts Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:45:30 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-11415-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner~y2009m9d3-Why-these-local-corporate-dropouts-are-smiling?cid=exrss-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-11415-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner~y2009m9d1-Fortune-cookie-says-Yes-to-YES-Magazine?cid=exrss-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner Every single article's about happiness. If your coffee table is made of recycled phone books, you probably keep YES! Magazine on it - and hopefully their recent Happiness issue. A Harvard happiness class, happiness action heroes, a Tibetan monk tell... Fortune Cookie Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:22:16 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-11415-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner~y2009m9d1-Fortune-cookie-says-Yes-to-YES-Magazine?cid=exrss-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-11415-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner~y2009m8d27-Fortune-cookie-says-The-20-minute-depression?cid=exrss-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner Time yourself to avoid this spiral. Photo by laerpel via flickr Creative Commons You might suppress, repress and deny your pain all day long, but for 20 minutes a day, let yourself go to pieces - say after dinner from 7:00-7:20. Instead of suffering... Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:30:26 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-11415-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner~y2009m8d27-Fortune-cookie-says-The-20-minute-depression?cid=exrss-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-11415-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner~y2009m8d24-Reminder-Farmers-markets-are-Oaklandish?cid=exrss-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner Great Asian produce in Old Oakland on Fridays. Thirteen farmers markets happen every week between Oakland and Berkeley, with a whopping ten in Oakland alone (listed below). Healthy, local, organic, eco, yadda yadda, we know the politically correct ... Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:02:02 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-11415-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner~y2009m8d24-Reminder-Farmers-markets-are-Oaklandish?cid=exrss-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-11415-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner~y2009m8d17-Fortune-cookie-says-Success-guaranteed?cid=exrss-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner List bad. Instinctive knowledge good. Photo by koalazymonkey via flickr. Before you're out of bed, before opening your eyes, ask yourself, "Self, what's the one thing I can do that will make today a success?" That simple question is a grea... Fortune Cookie Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:04:42 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-11415-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner~y2009m8d17-Fortune-cookie-says-Success-guaranteed?cid=exrss-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-11415-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner~y2009m8d13-Keep-friends-close-but-negative-role-models-closer?cid=exrss-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner   Pity party. Photo by Evil Erin. A control-freak boss, a naysaying best friend, a preachy parent - our negative role models are worth their weight in gold. They teach us who we don’t want to be – as much or more than their angelic ... Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:13:19 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-11415-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner~y2009m8d13-Keep-friends-close-but-negative-role-models-closer?cid=exrss-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-11415-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner~y2009m8d11-Fortune-cookie-Ode-to-the-earplug?cid=exrss-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner Fresh earplugs...or dangerous tropical fish?Photo by David Masters Thank you, small, humble, inanimate objects that make daily life bearable. The common drugstore earplug - in lime, fuschia, safety orange and wax - Normal 0 false fal... Fortune Cookie Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:33:54 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-11415-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner~y2009m8d11-Fortune-cookie-Ode-to-the-earplug?cid=exrss-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-11415-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner~y2009m8d9-Daily-fortune-cookie-Sunscreen-your-cleavage?cid=exrss-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner Photo by Nicky Fern Almost mid-August and, to everyone's delight, Bay Area women are finally able to wear pretty sundresses. Sundress etiquette dictates that if you got it, slather it with sunscreen, then flaunt it. Neck and cleavage, down as far as... Fortune Cookie Sun, 09 Aug 2009 14:06:07 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-11415-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner~y2009m8d9-Daily-fortune-cookie-Sunscreen-your-cleavage?cid=exrss-Oakland-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner