As we end the year, and Thanksgiving approaches this is a good time for taking stock. Who has made a difference in your life? Have you been able to make a difference in someone else's life?
Many of us believe the Thanksgiving feast is all about the stuffing. I make three stuffings, including my grandmother's mashed potato and bread stuffing with bacon. And here is the recipe.
If you are not hosting everyone at your house, consider yourself lucky. If you are, I have done my fair share of hosting Thanksgiving dinners, so I'll share my tips with you--in order of priority.
My mother, a truly marvelous woman, was an awful cook. Growing up in the Depression years it was not odd for a boy to have such a mother and believe that his Thanksgiving meal was comprised of delicious food.
No one wants a turkey-less Thanksgiving. I resigned myself to a meal at someone else's house, cringing at the sight of a gravy-dripping bird proudly displayed in the center of a dining room table.
By Stephen Viscusi Every day I hear from hundreds of people top men and woman in their field, who have, in their words "not had a bite...a nibble...
You'll need something quenching to wash down overcooked turkey, something with a hint of sweetness so it won't taste bitter with the side dishes, something tart enough to cut their sweetness, and something friendly that everybody will love.
Imagine you are a Mayan Indian, living at dizzying heights in the Andes Mountains more than 6000 years ago. Your entire culture is built around "Th...
Study after study has shown that people who practice grateful thinking are healthier, happier and more content with their lives than those who don't.
Pretension wrapped in a noun wrapped in a gerund: that's what gifting is. This holiday season, give the gift that keeps giving: something nice you picked yourself, for a particular person.
White Christmas is a cultural and traditional icon of our society. Hopefully, sooner rather than later, Green Thanksgiving will also become an American standard.
Too many people with too little to be thankful for, need to be fed and wished a happy Thanksgiving.
I realize that when I'm shopping for food from all of these hard-working, smart, and wonderful people, I'm not just getting nutritious and delicious fresh food, I'm getting a feeling of love.
Today's digital-media-enabled contests, perhaps even the most familiar reality-TV, American Idol-type kind, are popular because they promise a rags-to-riches success for at least one contestant.
The festival-circuit darling Precious has debuted with $1.8 million on just 18 screens. Yes, that's $100,000 per screen for three days. That's the twelfth-biggest per-screen average of all time.
As performers, gay icons are the great uniters. All of you closeted jocks singing "We Will Rock You" at the stadium -- you feel a little gay, right? No? Is that just me?
Focusing on giving thanks as often as possible this and every month will help us to open to inner wisdom and the spontaneous flow of our multifaceted lives.
Unfortunately, bad has become normal in terms of how we eat and how we produce food. Our health, our planet, and other animals suffer by our harmful and illogical habit of consuming meat, milk and eggs.
Go to farmers' markets and farm stands, or buy a share in a CSA. Buy a whole cow. Keep it in your freezer. Share it with your neighbor. You'll put money directly in the pocket of a farmer rather than a host of middlemen.
Somehow in our search for reasonable health care, my only sibling was caught in a vortex of "policies and procedures" designed to minimize costs and avoid accountability.
Is the absence of a trend a trend? Much like Sherlock Holmes' non-barking nocturnal canine, the remarkable thing about President Barack Obama's poll n...
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