http://www.yesweekly.com/articles.sec-238-1-ten-best.html November holidays celebrate the bounty of the harvest and nature's beauty as the palette shifts from vibrant green to warm, autumnal fire. But sometimes I think that the glut of holidays beginning this month were an invention of the Man to distract the herd from the oncoming gloom of winter. ]]> " A touchstone of my childhood, I can remember carrying my metal Thermos brand lunch box with Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids to Grove Park Elementary every single day. The contents: one peanut butter and jelly sandwich; one bag of Fritos or Wise potato chips and Kool Aid in the Fat Albert thermos jug." ]]> A touchstone of my childhood, I can remember carrying my metal Thermos brand lunch box with Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids to Grove Park Elementary every single day. The contents: one peanut butter and jelly sandwich; one bag of Fritos or Wise potato chips and Kool Aid in the Fat Albert thermos jug. ]]> "Trust thyself; every heart vibrates to that iron string." These immortal words, published in Ralph Waldo Emerson's Self-Reliance in 1841, represent just one of the thousands of shimmering diamonds of wisdom imparted by the man known as the "Concord Sage." ]]> It looks like it's time to put my old Subaru Outback down. Over the last five years I've put about $5,000 into its care and upkeep, but like a workhorse with a broken leg, there's just not much more that I can do for it. ]]>