The Haxtun-Fleming Herald - What can we reason but from what we know? -Alexander Pope

Thanksgiving is coming up soon. I’m not sure if it is a national tradition to use the occasion to stop for a moment and think of the things we are thankful for or not. At our house, however, that’s what we do. In case that’s not how you honor the event, I thought I would share my own list with you. Maybe it will encourage you to make your own, even better, list.

In these troubled financial times I am thankful to already be poor. While others mourn the loss of their villa in France, a major portion of their considerable stock portfolio, a decline in their 401K or some other number that means a...