What price would you put on contentment? Can it be bought? While we intuitively know it is not for sale, we are incessantly bombarded with an ever-increasing number of options, channels, products and choices that are touted to scratch the nagging itch of “If I only had _____” and bring us fulfillment. Sometimes we fall […]

The United Nations (UN) publishes an annual report on happiness. This year my homeland Norway climbed from its previous fourth place position to stand atop the podium as the happiest country in the world. Is that really true and is happiness what determines a good life? Please allow me to explain. In its survey, the […]

A cairn is a human-made pile of stones. The word cairn comes from the Scottish Gaelic: càrn. Cairns have been used for a broad variety of purposes, from prehistoric times to the present. They are trail markers in many parts of the world—in uplands, on moorland, on mountaintops, near waterways and on sea cliffs, as […]