As I prepare for the holiday season, I think about all of the great recipes that I’ve used for baking holiday desserts. Over the years, I’ve had some recipes that haven’t quite turned out the way that I had wanted them to. Sometimes I’ve added too much of this or that, and sometimes I’ve baked the cookies too long. The bad recipes get quickly crossed out and are not used again.
Read MoreHuman emotion runs high during stressful situations. Over the past 18 months, people have been stressed out for various reasons. Job loss and financial loss have been on the top of people’s list since the economic turmoil last fall. The emotions during a substantial financial downturn are similar to the five stages of grief. Emotions experienced during the five stages of grief are related to times of great stress or loss. A parallel between what is happening in people’s financial lives and the five stages of grief (loss) can be drawn to examine how people are reacting to the news of their steep financial hardships.
Read MoreI remember studying the Boston Tea Party in the eighth grade. In case your memory is as foggy as a Boston night in fall…let’s examine what happened in 1773. The source of this information is www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Boston_Tea_Party.aspx. The encyclopedia says: “Boston Tea Party (1773) Protest by a group of Massachusetts colonists, disguised as Mohawks and led by Samuel Adams, against the Tea Act and, more generally, against “taxation without representation.” The Tea Act (1773), passed by the British Parliament, withdrew duty on tea exported to the colonies. It enabled the East India Company to sell tea directly to the colonies without first going to Britain and resulted in colonial merchants being undersold.
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