A Better Story than Black Friday (from New York Minute Magazine)

This week we will celebrate the very ailment that robs so many of us from realizing a life of meaning and joy. Before the turkey and stuffing have settled and the tryptophan haze can send us into the arms of the lazy-boy for a deep afternoon snooze, we will absquatulate like herds of famished zombies […]

“Fasting” on Black Friday

Our culture’s remarkable dedication to Friday’s “religious” celebration has me thinking back to another story from severalyears ago. (You can read about reports of this Friday’s projected madness here: http://money.cnn.com/2011/11/22/pf/black_friday/index.htm?hpt=hp_t2) It was a crisp Tennessee day, November 28th, 2008, the Friday after Thanksgiving, when I rose early at my in-laws’ house to go for a […]