A couple of weeks ago, my husband said words I've dreaded hearing. "Sometime in the next year or two, we need to find you another car." I know. Most people would be thrilled at the prospect of a newer car, but I love my Prius. She's candy-apple red, has leather seats and seat warmers, and she gets great mileage.
Nothing has been the same since COVID hit in 2020, and this year we are having an unusual amount of illness due to influenza and bad colds. All of these respiratory illnesses become more prevalent as the weather cools, and usually the number of office visits for flulike symptoms begins to rise during October. Typically, by sometime during November or early December about 2.5% of all office visits to a healthcare provider are because of flu-like symptoms.
I hope that you’re enjoying the Christmas Traditions Around the World and holiday recipe articles that I’ve been writing. Personally, I believe that Christmas is the one time of the year that we truly feel connected around the world.
DALLAS (AP) — Just before a midair collision that killed six at a Dallas air show, a group of historic fighter planes was told to fly ahead of a formation of bombers without any prior plan for coordinating altitude, according to a federal report released Wednesday. The report did not give a cause of the crash.
There are cycles in nature and in life. The cycles of the Christian calendar are reflective of this, and now (the first week of Advent) is when we begin to look back as well as to look forward.
lashing lights slowly creating a zoo with a claw machine glistening stars bare branches reach into the night sky .
Now that Thanksgiving is over, we look can forward to old Kris Kringle stopping by. I think many of us; parents, grandparents, and children alike wake up excited on the Friday after Thanksgiving. As we used to say in my family, “One turkey down, one turkey to go.”
I am blessed, and I am grateful. No doubt there will be millions of blog posts, YouTube videos and Facebook posts this week about Thanksgiving and about giving thanks. I am glad for that, and for my part, I am taking this opportunity to express my personal gratitude and to encourage others to share in the attitude of gratitude.
Sometimes the year flies by faster than we realize. I think as we get older we learn to savor our time and to make the most of it. We watch our children grow into adults and then have children of their own. If we’re truly lucky, we get to see our grandchildren grow up to have children of their own.
Don Newbury flung long ago finally stopped, they were like the season’s final flailing of turkeys soon to be main courses on Thanksgiving tables. For some journalists, however, minds continue to spin--conjuring, probing, marveling and expressing-- thoughts about life, sometimes exceeding sublime or falling short of ridiculous.