Because today is World Laughter Day and we all could use a little help cheering up,  I'm re-posting the story of Harvey Ball, the art...

I think all of us could use a reason to smile about now, so I'm reminding you that today--the first Friday in October--is World Smi...

  In my forthcoming book “The Saga of Smiley”, which chronicles the history of the Smiley Face icon since it was ...

(Click on Buster to make him bigger.) ( It's July again and once again I'm frantically writing toward a deadline on a magazine...

Because today (Oct. 3, 2014) is the 15th annual World Smile Day, I'm posting the story of Harvey Ball, the artist from Worcester,...

     1.  Smiley was created in Dec. 1963, in Worcester, MA by Harvey Ball, a commercial artist and decorated WWII veteran for an insuranc...

(Click on Buster to make him bigger.) ( Okay--this blog post was posted last July but it's July again and Buster is on top of the Sole a...

(Click on Buster to make him bigger.) We who live in (or near) Worcester MA, population 170,000, are fiercely loyal, even though big city pa...