Food for Thought: What’s on Your Bucket List?
Not everyone has a bucket list naming the things they most want to do before they die, but maybe we should. In the…
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Food for Thought: Fear vs Faith
The cartoon character Charlie Brown always seems to be concerned about something. In one comic strip in the series Charlie comes up with…
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Food for Thought: Trading Places
In the 1983 movie “Trading Places”, a snobbish businessman, played by Dan Aykroyd, is forced by his boss, who had made a bet…
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Food for Thought: How Like a Tree Are We?
There is a beautiful poem by May Sarton that sums up what we should all wish for ourselves. It reads as follows: “I…
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Food for Thought: What Does It Mean to Succeed?
It depends on what your definition of success is. We traditionally assume that success means having a great career that pays very well. …
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Food for Thought: Quality Time
A cartoon captured a child’s imagination of what she’d no doubt overheard before. Holding her doll while talking with a friend, she said, “Between…
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Food for Thought: Selfishness vs. Selflessness
The All India Institute of Medical Sciences has tracked a unique statistic: how many people have died while taking a selfie. Their research…
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Food for Thought: Overcoming Challenges
At some point in our lives, we all face challenges of one kind or another. Some challenges are welcomed and some might not…
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Food for Thought: Kindness Matters
Through research conducted by Coca-Cola it was discovered that 83% of young Americans (age 17 to 24) were inspired to do a random…
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Food for Thought: What Young People Teach Us
Some of us older folks feel a little intimidated by the latest technology. Since we didn’t grow up with computers, smart phones and…