Hey Noreen

This week is one of the most heavily traveled weeks all year. There will be millions of people flying or driving across state lines to get home and have Thanksgiving dinner with their families.

My family dinner will be pulling people for 4 different states, but not all of us will be there. My sister is hosting the dinner in Virginia. We can’t make that long a trip right now, but my thoughts are with them. the worst thing about not being there is that the people not there get talked about and they aren’t able to defend themselves. Rumors and arguments from family gatherings have a way of lasting for months afterwards. That’s how families do.

Sure, we are all creatures of habit. But those habits make us lazy and vulnerable. If fact, a person with a fixed routine is an easy victim. You might notice that in some of the spy and detective dramas on TV. Habits reveal our weaknesses.

I like to get out of my comfort zone. Sometimes it just means ordering a different food when you go to the local diner. It might mean taking a different route home or just going for a drive one afternoon. Or watching a couple of shows that you never heard of on a cable channel that you usually skip over.