The time is coming to give thanks.  Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays.  I’m a holiday-lover, so there’s a lot of competition, but Thanksgiving always ranks near the top for me.

Let me give you a bullet-point list what I’m thankful for.  In no way is this complete.  I’m offering simply to prompt you all to do the same.

• the freedom to change the station when the Kars for kids ad comes on
• the slick look of pavement when it rains
• Christmas season in New York City (I know this is a cliche, but I love it so)
• the sausage gravy my wife makes every Christmas morning
• my wife, Sue (ok, another cliche, but if you knew her and all the she puts up with…)
• of course, our 3 kids, now 29, 26, 23
• our new dog, Max, 3 months old, 80 pounds, a rescue mutt from Alabama; he is systematically destroying our house but we love him to pieces anyway
• Mozart’s Jupiter symphony
• Tom Friedman and David Brooks columns in the NY Times (ok, so I am a liberal, I hope that’s all right)
• That I am turning 69 and coming out with a new book with John Ratey in 2019
• hot dogs with lots of mustard
• and sauerkraut
• taramasalata (it’s a Greek spread…. to die for)
• the salt air when you cross over onto Cape Cod
• NAMI
• button-down collar shirts (I’m a preppy)
• lying in bed, watching TV with Sue late at night
• the fact that I can still play squash a little bit
• all of you who read this newsletter!

…. what are your favorite things?

Dr. Hallowell’s 2018 Distraction S3 Mini 11 Thanksgiving message.