The Atlantic June 2009, "What Makes Us Happy?"

An article on a longitudinal study of mental and physical well-being conducted at Harvard that has lasted over 70 years. Chief 'curator' of the study, psychiatrist George Vaillant offers profound insight into how what is considered health or illness is socially defined. Vaillent also brings a nuanced theory of 'defense mechanisms' that evolve over time, to bear on his subjects' case histories. Through an analysis and narrative construction of case histories from a mass of documentation, the doctor argues against a simplistic understanding of what contributes to happiness.

Summer is almost here, and summer means entertaining; picnics, barbeques, outdoor brunches, drinking champers before noon, you know the drill. During party season, a person can easily become overwhelmed by demands on their culinary imagination.

Luckily, when the invitations rack up and you are sick to death of bringing your “amazing peach cobbler”, Weight Watchers recipe cards from 1974 offer a little technicolor ‘inspiration’.

Check out this recipe for a Chilled Celery Log

You could eat this log. Or you could stick your hand in a rusty kitchen grinder. Yeah, have fun. (CandyBoots)

Yum! And don’t worry there are dozens more where that came from.

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