The biggest waste is to do that thing you call work, but to interrupt it, compromise it, cheat it and still call it work.

This week, researchers at Umea University in Sweden released a startling finding: Couples in which one partner commutes for longer than 45 minutes are 40 percent likelier to divorce.

It was more fun that way than if I had seriously looked for her. And maybe happiness is a bit paradoxical like that: if you stop pursuing it, there are fewer places for it to hide. You just have to be listening when it says “I’m over here!”

Enjoy making music more than studying political science? Then do it; what’s stopping you? Fascinated more by the beauty and mechanics of cars than the terminology-craziness of biology? Then go get your grease on.

New York Magazine's article, All Joy And No Fun: Why Parents Hate Parenting, has 19 million pages of quotes and examples, but no answer.   Too bad; the answer is right there.