Thanksgiving Carbfest

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The U.S. has just celebrated another Thanksgiving Day. The fourth Thursday of every November is set aside so that we may gather and remember what we’re thankful for. Most families celebrate with a HUGE feast of some kind. Even the some of the poorest families will somehow manage to cook enough food to feed a small country. For the ones that can’t, many churches and civic groups will put out a feast that any are welcome to attend.

Reflecting on what I’m thankful for, this year I seem to be a little more sensitive to my mortality. We have attended too many funerals of friends and family. Since I am the only child of an only child, my family is very small to begin with. I know that too soon there will be no one left who remembers the time the kitten ran up Granny’s pant leg. Others will know the stories, but no one will have been there with me. Like many others, I am thankful for all the time I get to spend with my loved ones. I’m also thankful for all of the leftovers. Since we are such a small family, there’s not many to divide up all that food! I’ve been eating turkey and ham for a solid week now.

Maybe this is why so many people have what is known as a mid-life crisis. You notice suddenly that your future years are not as great in number as your years past, and you still haven’t made out with a redhead in a corvette.

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On The Edge Of Tomorrow

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You know how sometimes you will sit and plan for the future? Sometimes you think about the next few minutes, days, or even years? I have been known to fill entire legal pads with plans and schedules. Most of them deal with ways to organize or better my life, but many of them are ways I intend to spend more time with my family. How ironic that I would tell my kids I don’t have time to play right now because I’m trying to work out a schedule that will let me play with them.

Then one day you wake up and find they’re grown. All of their toy cars and dollies are in boxes as the kids drive off to work or school. Yesterday they were afraid to get out of your arms. Today, they’ve cast aside their “floaties” and they’re running for the deep end of the pool.

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Getting high

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WARNING: There are some things a mother just doesn’t need to know. Continue at your own risk.

I was talking with some friends from work a few days ago about our different teenage antics. At some point, the topic turned to substance abuse and “getting high.”

Both of them, from very different areas of the country and separated by thirty years, had story after story of their indulgences. I didn’t have anything to join in with. My experimentation was extremely limited. In the 80’s when I was in high school, drugs were everywhere. I even remember seeing people do lines of cocaine at the skating rink. I don’t know if we were too scared or too poor, but my friends and I just did not make these lifestyle choices.

We did our fair share of other stupid things, though. All of my group got married either in high school or just after graduation. We would score some liquor and have drunken campfires in the countryside. When we wanted to get high, we would grab some beers and climb the local grain eleVator. You can’t get much higher than a good beer buz five stories in the air.

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