Thankfulness from the Mouth of Bad Little Kids

By now the gorging of turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie should be hours behind us.  Me?  I just got done taking a shot of Pepto Bismol to quell the pains of pairing a slice of rum cake with a sliver of sweet potato pie as a late night snack.  Yeah, it was good going in. 

While some may be just waking up from a tryptophan induced coma, others are staggering bleary-eyed from store front to store front, fighting to complete gift lists via Black Friday deals.  As expected, we already have a shopping meltdown where a woman pepper sprayed her fellow shoppers to keep them from the goods she wanted to buy.  For the love of humanity, people. Continue reading

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For What Do You Give Thanks?

I have a confession — I’ve been snacking on sweet potato pie since Monday and got into some fried turkey and potato salad last night.  The way I see it, if there are things in life to enjoy, why not dive in anytime?  Yes, today is Thanksgiving, and around the country many people, families, friends and turkeys happy to have avoided being served up on a platter will be speaking out words of “thanks.”  But as my WANA711 sister, Diana Murdock shared, why should we give thanks only on Thanksgiving? Continue reading

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