Happiness: is there a key? Strange question, maybe, maybe not. “So, how exactly, do you decide to be happy?” My friend looked bemusedly at me as she replied to my statement that I thought happiness was a decision we made. “LOOK at that tree!” I exclaimed loudly and with vehemence, knowing that my reply to her question required more than a little explanation. My psychologist husband, knowing this story, entered the fray by asking “Lin, when was one of your happiest times in your life?” Silent for a moment, I thought about his question and reviewed major events in my life; hallmarks […]