And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Welcome comedian paula poundstone, this selfdetermined doubting thomas was determined to find the secret to lasting happiness and tried a series of experiments. In her new book. Its called the totally unscientific study for the search for Human Happiness. Why a selfproclaimed doubting thomas . Ill tell you. My book is a series of experiments, as you say, doing things that i or other people thought would make me happy, and every chapters written as an experiment with a hypothesis and the conditions and the variables and hopefully the funniest field notes ever written, but the question for me wasnt whether i would enjoy doing something. The question was, what could i do that would give me, you know, a little lasting something. You know what i mean . Like when i finished doing it i wouldnt have an umbrella, so to speak, for the inevitable rains of ones daily life, so the analysis of each chapter is the story of rai
And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Welcome comedian paula poundstone, this selfdetermined doubting thomas was determined to find the secret to lasting happiness and tried a series of experiments. In her new book. Its called the totally unscientific study for the search for Human Happiness. Why a selfproclaimed doubting thomas . Ill tell you. My book is a series of experiments, as you say, doing things that i or other people thought would make me happy, and every chapters written as an experiment with a hypothesis and the conditions and the variables and hopefully the funniest field notes ever written, but the question for me wasnt whether i would enjoy doing something. The question was, what could i do that would give me, you know, a little lasting something. You know what i mean . Like when i finished doing it i wouldnt have an umbrella, so to speak, for the inevitable rains of ones daily life, so the analysis of each chapter is the story of rai
And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Professor dlark Armstrong Dunbar is an author. Her latest book is called never caught. The washingtons relentless pursuit of their runaway slave, ona judge. It is the life of the slave in the first family and is a look at the washingtons and slavery. Thank you, thank you, thank you. This book gives us a new way of seeing George Washington. Tell me more. It does. It was my goal when i wrote this book to tell a story about the founding of the nation, but through the eyes of the enslaved. Not through a typical founding fathers. So ona judges life gives us the ability to do that. She moves throughout the new nation and gives us a portal into the south, the midatlantic, and the north. I wasnt whispering to you but saying to you when you came on the set. It was fascinating to me to see the extent to which George Washington told on himself with the almanac, the copious notes he was taking every day about his life and h
And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Professor dlark Armstrong Dunbar is an author. Her latest book is called never caught. The washingtons relentless pursuit of their runaway slave, ona judge. It is the life of the slave in the first family and is a look at the washingtons and slavery. Thank you, thank you, thank you. This book gives us a new way of seeing George Washington. Tell me more. It does. It was my goal when i wrote this book to tell a story about the founding of the nation, but through the eyes of the enslaved. Not through a typical founding fathers. So ona judges life gives us the ability to do that. She moves throughout the new nation and gives us a portal into the south, the midatlantic, and the north. I wasnt whispering to you but saying to you when you came on the set. It was fascinating to me to see the extent to which George Washington told on himself with the almanac, the copious notes he was taking every day about his life and h
You cant ever forgive me, okay . Dont worry. Everything will be all right. It will work out in the end. On the day of her death, Michelle Okeefe, 18 years old, college freshman, was in a wonderful mood. Her Early Morning class was over. She had been offered another film gig in l. A. That very afternoon. A walkon role in a music video with kid rock. She aimed her parents gift, the shiny new blue mustang, through the streets of the Antelope Valley in los angeles. She had less than 12 hours to live. Her mother, pat okeefe, was just leaving the house. She was pulling up as i was driving out, coming back from a college class. So she waved and said hi with a big smile like she always does and i waved. She told me she was going to do a shoot that afternoon. That was the last time i saw her. It was february 22nd, 2000, a fine high desert morning, cool and clear. The fresh, clean start of a brandnew millennium. The storm was due that evening. She goes, im going down there. I said be careful. I