Grateful Thursday to Black Friday. Grateful to Greedy in less than 24 hours.

Tom likes to call the time from Thanksgiving to Christmas as "The Thirty Days of Gluttony." With people celebrating the holidays, it invariably involves food: Great good and great amounts of it. Then add the pies, Grandma's famous peanut butter fudge, and the ever-famous fruit cake and the calories skyrocket.

But just how do we learn to be thankful, especially in a day and age where people are so ego-centric that they feel they deserve what they get and, therefore, take it all for granted instead of being genuinely appreciative.

And it's not just "what" we're thankful for but for whom and to whom we are thankful.

The bottom line is, thankfulness is a position of being, not just saying. And choosing to be thankful, having a constant attitude of t ...