Have you ever heard of Thanksgiving practice? It's when you get together and celebrate Thanksgiving before the actual day. Last year my friends and I decided to have a po...
Maybe you have some health-conscious people on your holiday gift list. These may be some of the hardest gifts to buy – after all, what is practical, won’t break your ...
It’s easy to get caught up in the trappings of Thanksgiving – getting trapped in the kitchen, getting trapped in traffic, getting trapped in a political argument betw...
by Heather Moore Writing about cruelty to animals, as I often do, can be sobering. At this time of year, I like to reflect on positive actions for animals. There is much ...
Last Saturday, our whole family attended a neighbor child's birthday party at a local Wendy's, which, if you are wondering, does in fact qualify one for sainthood. Actual...
Have we had enough of rampaging, out-of-control, soul-killing, person-murdering poverty and Wall Street greed yet? Unlike some nattering dittoheads who have forgotten how...
What predicates a recession? What is it that stops the mechanism of a free market? Surely it’s not just one thing, but rather the accumulation of many things that creat...
So you’ve packed the car with homemade pumpkin pies and you’re on your way to Aunt Mildred’s for dinner. But as soon as you get on the highway, it seems like everyb...
It is not a hard secret that this will be Grandma's last Thanksgiving. What is hard is the knowledge of this bitter truth, facing this holiday of tradition for the last t...
I was sitting at the school's car pick-up area on Tuesday when Ryan, my kindergartner, approached the car with a huge smile on his face; accompanied by one of the teacher...


















