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Every Saturday morning at the nursing home I work at I do a program called down memory lane and then a bit of trivia. With Thanksgiving being next week I centered it around my program. We talked of turkeys and how fast they thought they could fly and what the names of the male and female turkeys were,then on to how to prepare one and what traditions their familys had at Thanksgiving dinner.They...

This is the time of year when many of us take a few moments to slow down and give thanks for what we have. It's something that personally, I wish I did more often. I don't think it should take a date on a calendar to force me to take stock of my life, and tell the people in my life how much I love and appreciate them. But, it's a nice kick-in-the-pants to get that thought process...

Walking into the living room, I caught a few brief few minutes of Dr. Wayne W. Dyer on the public television channel. He was lecturing from his book, Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life, in which he expounds the views of Lao-tzu expressed in the Great Way. I would have watched more but my husband had the television remote control and he switched the channel to his football...