Human beings are the most amazing things in the world. Be kind to them. Even the ones you don’t know. Even the ones you think you’ll never see again.

That does not mean you have to always be sweet or nice. It means you should always do human beings the courtesy of treating them as authentic, living, breathing creatures who have as much right to occupy space on this

A little package came the other day with a book inside: 100 Poems to Lift Your Spirits from Grand Central Publishing, Ed. Leslie Pockell.

The book is divided into four groupings of poems: Nature, Nonsense, Spiritual and The Human Connection. The poems in each group reflect on one of those topics: Keats’ “To Autumn” is in Nature; Kipling’s “The Thousandth Man” gets filed under The Human Connection, etc

If you think that good design might help you stick to your New Year’s resolution, check out Startaresolution.com.

The site is designed to help you stick to your goals by assigning everyone who joins a coach.

Each of the multi-colored circles represents someone’s resolution. When you sign up and add your own resolution, the person who created the circle to the

Color labels and moodtags are all the rage. You can organize your Gmail with fat color labels and earlier this year Moody came out with a way to tag your iTunes play lists by mood.

Select the mood of each track on your playlist in the candy-color mood matrix and then select the mood you want to hear, be it slow and stormy or frenetic

Last week’s issue of Time (November 26th) breaks down American happiness by job.

According to Time, we work more than we sleep and take fewer vacation days than any other Western nation. But for the most part, we’re happy: 9 out of 10 Americans rank themselves

On our recent excursion to the American Southwest Doug Jaeger found out what people do for fun in Arizona. Put ladders up to telephone poles, climb up those poles and then leap from the poles wearing various forms of helmetry and suspension gear.

You might surmise that this form of entertainment is popular in the Arizona desert because of a lack of shopping malls, but that would be

We must consume to survive. Life is fast paced and it’s easy to get in a habit of throwing things away as soon as we no longer have use for them. The next time you unpack, unwrap, or take something towards the trash can try turning your head sideways and find a new use for something.