Things To Be Happy About

About the Author

Dr. Barbara Ann Kipfer is the author of 14,000 Things to be Happy About (Workman 1990, revised edition 2007 - more than one million copies in print) and the 14 Page-a-Day calendars based on it. She has also authored The Order of Things, Self-Meditation, The Wish List, 1,400 Things for Kids to be Happy About, 8,789 Words of Wisdom, and Instant Karma for Workman Publishing. Her other books Roget's International Thesaurus and Dictionary of American Slang (HarperCollins), 201 Little Buddhist Reminders and 1,325 Buddhist Ways to Be Happy (Ulysses Press), Encyclopedic Dictionary of Archaeology (Springer), Word Nerd and Phraseology (Sourcebooks), Trivia Lovers' Lists of Nearly Everything in the Universe, How It Happens, 4,000 Questions for Getting to Know Anyone and Everyone, Consider This, and The Life of Language (Random House); Dictionary of Artifacts and The Archaeologist's Fieldwork Companion (Wiley-Blackwell), Field Guide to Happiness: A Manual for Identifying Happiness in its Natural Habitat and Field Guide to Happiness for Women (Globe Pequot/Lyons).

Barbara holds a PhD and MPhil in Linguistics (University of Exeter), a PhD in Archaeology (Greenwich University), an MA (Greenwich University) and PhD in Buddhist Studies (Akamai University), and BS in physical education (Valparaiso University).

Dr. Kipfer is Chief Lexicographer for Dictionary.com (part of Ask/IAC). She has also worked for such companies as Answers.com, Ask Jeeves, Bellcore/Telcordia, Cymfony, General Electric Research, IBM Research, idealab, Knowledge Adventure, Mindmaker, and Textwise.

Barbara is a Registered Professional Archaeologist and has taught meditation. Her other website is Archaeology Wordsmith.test