Here’s a holiday pop quiz: Do you remember what you received for Christmas last year? Do you remember what you gave? Me either.

We store all sorts of things, tangible and intangible. We hold on to worn-out dreams and old resentments as hard and fast as old LPs and half-used cans of paint.

Happiness these days is big business. But all the stuff being foisted upon us at every turn contributes not one iota to our happiness.