When Gretchen Came to her Senses

After a scary visit with her eye doctor, Gretchen Rubin, bestselling author of THE HAPPINESS PROJECT, had a radical epiphany. In her quest for joy, had she neglected the importance of her senses?

Photo of Gretchen Rubin © Austin Walsh

I first met Gretchen Rubin at the New York Society Library way back in the early aughts. We were both using the library as an office to write our next books after dropping off our then young kids at nearby schools. My work-in-progress at the time—a dark novel based on the true story of my childhood friend whose moth…