Happiness, Memoirs, Mental Health, Parenting & Relationships 

One Sunday afternoon, as she unloaded the dishwasher, Gretchen Rubin felt hit by a wave of homesickness. Homesick-why? She was standing right in her own kitchen. She felt homesick, she realized, with love for home itself. "Of all the elements of a happy life," she thought, "my home is the most important."

In a flash, Rubin decided to dedicate a year to making her home a place of greater simplicity, comfort, and love. Each month she experiments with concrete, manageable resolutions in areas such as possessions, marriage, body, time, and parenthood. How can she control the cubicle in her pocket? How might she spotlight her family's treasured possessions? And it really was time to replace that dud toaster.

Rubin writes with her signature blend of memoir, science, philosophy, and experimentation, and her passion for her subject jumps off the page. - from Amzon