thanksgiving

As holidays go, Thanksgiving sure has its share of odd traditions. Live parades with lip-synched musical numbers! Mincemeat pies and Jell-O molds! Grandma Ruthie removing her dentures at the dinner table! Not even the President of the United States is spared his share of the inanity. C

Appreciate your life this Thanksgiving even if it's not perfect.  I've always been told to not ask, "How much worse can things get?", 'cause you might just find out.

Take a look at the young man in this video and how he has overcome tremendous obstacles.  Watching this video helped me to understand that it's not the world that holds us back, we hold ourselves back.

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Let's face it: turkeys have it pretty rough. They let us feed and breed, blissfully unaware of the inevitable culmination of our kindness: DELICIOUS MURDER. (Even worse? They can't fly away.) So is it any wonder that they occasionally turn on us?

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Savvy buyers know Black Friday can be one of the best days of the year to find terrific bargains, but not all items are such great deals. In order to better your experience on that infamous shopping day, here are some things you may want to avoid purchasing, along with when you may be able to score the best deals on them.

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If you watch carefully, it’s not hard to see how Biola University professor Matthew Weathers seamlessly goes from speaking to his class in person to appearing in a YouTube video projected on the classroom’s movie screen. But it’s still a neat trick, and it even comes with a timely lesson about the spirit of Thanksgiving. Watch the coolest lesson ever below.

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Ah, pie. One of the great joys of Thanksgiving…that can so easily turn to abject terror if done wrong. From burnt crusts, to terrible fillings, pie is either really good, or really, really bad. Here's

If you're like most Americans, your Thanksgiving dinner table will include at least a few basic items — turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce and the like. But have you ever thought about why we eat those foods on Thanksgiving? Or, for that matter, why turkey is called “turkey”?

In order to answer these hard-hitting questions and maybe even give you some interesting small-talk for the table, here are the stories behind the traditional Thanksgiving foods.

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Beware of the bad guys when shopping for bargains in stores and on the internet. There are so many ways they can trick us from the old-fashioned 'bait and switch' type of scam to ads on legitimate websites that 'phish' for your financial information.

Here are a few tips we've picked up over years of Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping.

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Thanksgiving is a week away, but you can see several of the new floats that will grace the 85th Annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade right now courtesy of ‘Today.’

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With Thanksgiving almost here, we wanted to share some of our favorite songs about 'Home,' and to say 'Thanks' to our U.S. servicemen and women who are serving away from home during the holidays.

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According to a new Harris Poll, we are about the embark on the season of America’s most cherished holidays.

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