From Therese Borchard at HuffingtonPost.com:

I dread winter each year because many of my depression busters require sunny skies and temperatures in the 70s. What does a girl who kayaks and bikes for sanity do in the winter? Lots of things. Here are a few of them:

From theroot.com:

We all know about Black Friday and Cyber Monday, but what about Fat Tuesday? Nope, not the one heralding Mardi Gras. No, no. This is the Fat Tuesday that follows your holiday meal binge.

There is no one who has not been affected by our on-going financial crisis.  Only the very fortunate can say that times were not already hard.   For all of us, here are some encouraging words…