Alone and Together: A Very Short Primer on Happiness

Written as a letter to a young friend, Alone and Together: A Very Short Primer on Happiness offers a little advice and a lot of stories about being lonely, being in love, and being both at the same time.

Humorous, pithy and always coffee house conversation-worthy, its thirty-five memorable life lessons include: "Love Is Just a Feeling," "Being Alone Is Good," "It’s Okay To Be Strange," "Don’t Fall in Love With Your Brother," "Don’t Be Like Other People," "Beware of Middle Age," "Don’t Settle for Eyes that Don’t Glow," and "When It’s True Love, You Have to Turn the Car Around."

Here is an excerpt:

“When you can read a book, read a poem, take walks together, that is love.'

That is what my dad told me one time.

'When you can be alone together,' he said, 'That is love.'

He was right."