Kay, 41, and Andy, 46, got together with a little push from the staff at a church in Summit, New Jersey, where Kay is a full-time volunteer secretary.

On their first date, Andy asked Kay to marry him. Kay said, “No, let’s give it awhile.” Andy said, “O.K., I’ll wait a month.” Kay said, “No, try a year.

“They dated for more a year, going to movies, restaurants or plays about once a week, on foot or on the train since neither drive.

Kay and Andy are so loved in Summit that their wedding had 135 invited guests and another 300 from the community who responded to an open invitation.Ruth Lipper, Kay’s stepmother, says Kay and Andy are right for each other because they are “they are both so determined to be happy” and “put everything into everything they do.”

Read their story in The New York Times

When Stacey Frigerio and Sharif Mahdavian were married a decade ago she gave him a lengthy list of the things she couldn’t do, including bear children.

Stacey broke her back in a car accident the summer after college and was told it wasn’t possible for her to have children.

Not one to take ‘no’ for an answer, Stacey since has given birth to Anastasia, Andrew, and Alex.Today, Stacey walks with canes and leg braces, and sometimes uses a wheelchair. She has an adult tricycle for family bike rides and plays tennis with her children from her wheelchair.

“I always vowed I would not be a damsel in distress,” Stacey told The New York Times.

Click hear to read the love story of Stacey and Sharif and their children.

A Little Book of Lazy Inspiration

Stephen Robins’ book argues with wit that idling plays an important role in both the progress of civilization and in our daily well-being. With quotes and advice from Charles Dickens and Sir Thomas More to Henry Ford and Oscar Wilde, this sweet little book is proof indeed, as Schlegel wrote, that “Laziness is the one divine fragment of godlike existence left to man from paradise.”

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In Defense of Naps, Bacon, Martinis, Profanity and Other Indulgences

The Washington Post calls Barbara’s Holland’s book “pleasingly subversive” while Marty - a lifelong devotee of the nap - says Holland nails it when she writes, “Americans are afraid of naps.”

“Large numbers of us are, for one reason or another, home-bound, but do we indulge in the restorative nap? Mostly not. Oozing virtue and busyness, we flog ourselves on till evening,” Holland writes.

Milton wrote “Paradise Lost” in bed and Winston Churchill, a prodigious writer, produced some of his most important works from his bed, “brandy bottle at the ready.

“No doubt when inspiration flagged and his thoughts refused to marshall, (Churchill) took a nip and a nap. Now there was a man who knew a thing or two about a good day’s work,” Holland writes of the great prime minister.

“Endangered Pleasures” is the perfect book for the night stand in your guest room or the person going on vacation. “It shamelessly advocates all the pleasures that have fallen into low repute since modern Puritanism cast its pall over the country,” Russell Baker said in The New York Times.

Click to learn more about Holland’s unabashed ode to joy

When it comes to gardening, we believe in prepping and planting through June and - but for some light weeding - calling it quits for the rest of the summer.

From July on, our gardening motto might as well be, “We have nothing to do and plan to get only half of that done.” To that end, we find the following books useful, entertaining, and all about shortcuts:

Trowel & Error: Over 700 Shortcuts, Tips & Remedies for the Gardener, by Sharon Lovejoy.
This is Marty’s all-time favorite lazy gardening book. The illustrations are dazzling and the tips Gimpy friendly:

“Sometimes the mere thought of bending over one more bed or border is unbearable,” Lovejoy writes. “To cut down on bending, use a 4-foot length of narrow pipe as dibber, drop the seed down the pipe and cover with soil.

“Lovejoy packs her book with environmentally friendly ammunition against weeds and pests, shortcuts for cultivation and propagation, and clever uses for curious household items.

Trowel & Error is a great gift for the Gimpy Gardener. Learn More

Also high on the Gimpy Gardener List:

Tips for the Lazy Gardner, by Linda Tilgner.
Written more than 20 years ago, this little chestnut is inspirational. We use many of the tips, including how to maintain weed-free asparagus beds: Put a fence around the bed, and after the harvest, when the spears have grown up tall and lacy, let the chickens loose on the bed. They eat all the weeds, keep the asparagus beetle under control and fertilize the soil with their droppings.

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The Lazy Gardener, by Mara Grey.
This charming book reminds the reader of how attainable a garden retreat can be. Includes tips on low-maintenance plants, easy-care non-plant items as focal points, keeping a budget, and helpful easy-to-read charts and lists.

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“How to Cheat at Cleaning: Time-Slashing Techniques to Cut Corners”

Jeff Bredenberg’s book appeals to our lazy side. Many of his tips are smart and practical and some are just plain silly but entertaining.

If you already are a Domestic God or Goddess, this book will offer little that is new. But if you are like us, always in search of ways to find more time to nap, or soak, or just stare at the horizon, you’ll find something here.

A nice gift for a lazy cleaner and a perfect gift for the young man in your life just setting up house.Learn More

This ‘Smart Apartment’ in O’Connor, Canberra, Australia, is one of several apartments designed for low-income Gimpy people in the City Edge complex.

The apartments have adjustable height kitchen benches, including the sink and stove top, and wireless controlled front doors.The accommodations, while basic, demonstrate flexibility and offer greater independence to people in wheelchairs.

With a little color and some personal touches, it could indeed be home sweet home for many people.

Often, people are ashamed of their urge to nap.

But by giving in to the urge, they actually are improving the quality of their lives, says Dr. David F. Dinges, Nap Specialist at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

Click here to learn about the post-lunch dip, your circadian rhythm and why naps make our short, brutish lives that bit more bearable.

When winter comes, many of us feel like sleepy bears waiting for the Spring thaw. Our ancestors felt that way too. It turns out seasonal sloth is ancient and pervasive.

An Op-Ed piece in The New York Times says our long-deceased relatives shut themselves away as soon as the weather turned cold and practiced the forgotten art of doing nothing for months on end:

“At the first fall of snow the whole family gathers round the stove, lies down, ceases to wrestle with the problems of human existence, and quietly goes to sleep. Once a day every one wakes up to eat a piece of hard bread. … The members of the family take it in turn to watch and keep the fire alight. After six months of this reposeful existence the family wakes up, shakes itself” and “goes out to see if the grass is growing.”

Author Graham Robb suggests hibernation could save the planet by reducing energy consumption. If tax incentives were offered for hibernation, Robb theorizes, the long-term benefits of reduced energy consumption would counterbalance the economic loss.

In other words, there has never been a better time to stay in bed.