As I celebrated at the Parade this year. I thought about the people I have chosen to surround myself with. And I’m thankful for how I met them and what has kept us together and how we work to stay in each other’s lives. http://www.quotehd.com/imagequotes/authors11/tmb/edna-buchanan-quote-friends-are-the-family-we-choose-for-ourselves.jpg My first Thanksgiving in the city (3 years ago), I had

Happy Thanksgiving Everybody! I was not able to be with my family this Thanksgiving, but I still had a lovely time with a lot of old and new friends. The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade occupied most of my holiday because I was working on it. That experience included a lot of rain and cold and

This Monday our schools will be out for Columbus Day to celebrate the man who discovered the Americas. Today is National Leif Erikson Day. Today celebrates the man who was here nearly 500 years before Columbus. While some believed that the colony he founded (Vinland) may have been near Boston, it seems to be more accurate