happiness

Is self-control the key to happiness? Apparently so in Australia, says Bernard Salt, a KPMG partner and demographer based in Melbourne.

I'm working on a story about random acts of kindness, and that means that I have to dedicate a considerable chunk of my time to making an effort to be nice.

Love is notoriously blind, and when you're really happy with someone it can be hard to see the possibility of the bloom falling off the rose. This is one of the reasons that the introduction of a prenuptial agreement can be so jarring.

Okay, I admit it. I’m not Caillou’s parents. (Actually I think those parents are completely unreal...do they ever get frustrated?!) I have been known, as a parent, to yell.

When I was a kid, I was a champion television watcher. I could sit in a basement and watch sitcom after sitcom, from Growing Pains to the Hogan Family.