Connective Visions

Pausing for Thankfulness and Sharing: Good Economic Practice

November 30th, 2010 by Joanna Mullins | Comments Off

View from Hawk Mountain, Hamburg, PA

Shifting the holiday focus from sales to relationships can provide both social and economic benefits.


The Rant Is Too Damn High: Dealing with Fat Mouths in the Thin Time

October 26th, 2010 by Joanna Mullins | 4 Comments

Watching from the dark

The twilight time of Halloween/All Saints’ corresponds all too well with the 2010 U.S. elections.


Due North: Migrating toward Happiness

August 6th, 2010 by Joanna Mullins | 2 Comments

FlyingInOverNorge

It’s not just vacation – it’s getting out of the country.


Midsummer Silliness: Challenging Nonsense with Child’s Play

June 30th, 2010 by Joanna Mullins | Comments Off

Swedish maypole

Summer vacations can also be ventures away from habit – especially when it comes to the U.S. media and the discussions they generate.


Happiness II: Empathy Lessons from Traffic

April 6th, 2010 by Joanna Mullins | 3 Comments

Philadelphia morning traffic toward the end of rush hour

The Easter weekend in Norway is a national holiday, running from Thursday through Monday, over which time even supermarkets close. It came to an end yesterday evening, so the traffic warnings had hit the news headlines Sunday night. Adult citizens


Happiness I: Something to Talk About … or Not

March 22nd, 2010 by Joanna Mullins | 3 Comments

Philadelphia has just completed a gorgeous, 70-degree F week (that’s in the 20s C, for all you civilized souls who use the metric system)* as the city entered springtime – and corresponding with the emergence of people from their homes were two blogs



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