I want to let my friends know about this new feature in the New York Times. (I don't think it's restricted to subscribers.) It is a compiled blog titled Happy Days, and described like this:

The severe economic downturn has forced many people to reassess their values and the ways they act on them in their daily lives. For some, the pursuit of happiness, sanity, or even survival, has been transformed.

Happy Days is a discussion about the search for contentment in its many forms — economic, emotional, physical, spiritual — and the stories of those striving to come to terms with the lives they lead.

This is interesting stuff - not your ordinary smiley face.
[image: Brodie, smiley-face dog]