I broke my collarbone when I was too young to remember it and walked on crutches at my college graduation because of a sprained ankle. But I had never injured myself so badly that I ended up in the emergency room. Until Saturday.

An ad caught my eye recently, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It showed an art collection splashed across the sides of city buses—paintings by Sargent, Picasso and Warhol and a photograph by Walker Evans. (Who expects to see great works of art on public transportation?)

The glorious spring weather this week has had me humming “What a Wonderful World” on my walks to and from work. The aging Louis Armstrong made the song famous, singing in his gravelly voice, “I see skies of blue ... clouds of white ... the bright blessed day ... the dark sacred night ...”

April is Stress Awareness Month. That’s what an email from my health insurance company informed me this morning. As if I weren’t already uncomfortably aware of my stress level, which is escalating the closer we get to tax day (can you tell I haven’t finished mine yet?).

But I know having a negative attitude isn’t going to ease my stress (or get my taxes done any faster). So I turned to these simple stress-relieving techniques from the foremost practitioner of the power of positive thinking, Dr. Norman Vincent Peale. Try one (or all) for yourself.

Do you want to be a more positive person? Since you’re reading this blog, I bet your answer is yes. Here’s something you can do that will help you have a more positive attitude toward other people and better interactions with them. And it's something that might surprise you: Read fiction.

The other day one of my coworkers mentioned that March is National Procrastination Month. The comment wasn’t meant kindly—she obviously thought editorial time management wasn’t up to snuff—but I can’t help putting a positive thinking spin on it. In fact, I’m grateful to her for giving me something to blog about.

Remember when you used to bounce back immediately from a late night? Of course, it’s a lot easier to recover from a John Hughes or Godfather movie marathon (my dad still wonders if I did any studying in college) than from a long night—or a string of long nights—at the office. I’m still so tired from the 60 hours at work I put in last week that I can barely think straight, let alone think positive.

Heliotropism usually refers to plants’ tendency to turn themselves toward sunlight, but if a person can be heliotropic, I am. I love the sun, and rain can really bring me down. Especially on a cold winter morning. When I woke up to the sound of car wheels splashing (my apartment is on busy Third Avenue), I knew staying positive today would take an effort. “Here comes the rain again,” I half-groaned, half-sang to my dog, dragging myself out the door with her.

I was going to write about Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin’s own assessment of his meteoric rise from on-the-verge-of-getting-cut benchwarmer to NBA sensation, but my colleague (and fellow New York sports fan) Mysterious Ways blogger Adam Hunter beat me to it. Still I’ve got to say something about the guy who’s the biggest inspirational story in sports right now.

"Why Morning Routines Are Creativity Killers." When I saw that headline over at Time.com last week, I clicked on it right away. I don’t feel like I get my best ideas in the morning. I’ve always chalked it up to being a night owl who has never completely adjusted to a 9 to 5 world, and I was hoping the article would give me some clues on how to kick-start my creativity—not to mention my positivity—in the morning.