Just Listen - Stuff Your Turkey With Giving Thanks
Make giving thanks the center piece of your Thanksgiving by having each person give a Power Thank You.
They used to tell adopted children that they were special because they'd been chosen. I've told my adopted child that I don't believe that. Neither adoption nor birth conveys status to a child.
Make giving thanks the center piece of your Thanksgiving by having each person give a Power Thank You.
It seems like a woman has to pick her poison. Suffer now, or take "a few years off" and pay later. Women need to know that "taking a few years off" can often lead to a permanent condition of dependence and loss of identity.
Spirituality should be approached rationally, not solely through inspiration, emotion and blind faith. It's time to bring it into the 21st Century, and for irrationality that seeps into other crucial debates to be stymied.
At the recent Moth Ball this week the fabulous men-about-town Jonathan Adler and Simon Doonan were on hand to present a scholarship and speak with me about the holidays, the recession, and more.
Historically, I am reminded that for many Native Americans, Thanksgiving is not a cause of celebration, but rather a National Day of Mourning.
Between 60 and 70 percent of those age 65 and over are diabetic or prediabetic -- half are unaware they have the condition because they are symptom free.
I set out in this post to write about what I think is the hardest part of cooking for large numbers of people in non-industrial kitchens -- keeping everything warm.
In my view, the press is getting and giving the wrong message on mammography. There are significant flaws in recent analyses that have escaped most headlines.
It is sad and ironic that an information-dependent profession is denied convenient access to needed information in an age when we connect other aspects of our infrastructure easily and often.
I recently had a friend, with whom I've had an increasingly difficult relationship over the years, "unfriend" me. The "friending" and "unfriending" of people happens probably thousands of times a minute.
A farmer can keep your turkey in a dark warehouse, open a door just once to a patch of grass and the "access to the outside" distinction for the USDA 'free-range' label has been met.
Many of us run away or hide from our fears because they seem scary, uncomfortable, or embarrassing. We also erroneously think we "shouldn't" have them or that we are somehow "wrong" for feeling scared.