Big Dicks and Psycho Bitches: The Top Ten Posts on The Good Life in January

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What are you reading on The Good Life? Here are the top ten posts this month.

A Tiny Word That Makes a Huge Difference

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Word choice colors how we see one another: as having attributes, or embodying them.

Frankly, I Do Give a Damn

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An encounter in the grocery parking lot changes Greg White’s resolutions for this and every year.

Why We Fail at Keeping Resolutions

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Joanna Schroeder examines evidence that New Year’s resolutions are doomed to fail—and ponders how to succeed at making meaningful change.

What You Gonna Spend Your One Wild, Precious, Free Life On?

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Looking ahead to a new year and asking that timeless question once again.

Santa Sex Tape

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One celebrity whose star will never set is Santa Claus’, and one reason why is that he’ll never be brought low by scandal.

Future Dreams: Poems by Kids

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Two poems on the future, by elementary school students. It Would Be Neat If With the New Year: “My worn out green sneakers, that’s where my sadness lies.” and Great Future: “I am an awful dentist, but a great cook.”

“Dream Good”: Woody Guthrie’s 1942 New Year’s Resolutions

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#33. Wake up and fight

Book Excerpt: Resolution

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A bloody forehead, a bad back, and a train wreck later, Joseph Levens’ New Year’s resolution pays off. An excerpt from the Good Men Project book.