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How To Achieve Your New Year’s Resolution

- Marie Wetmore It’s New Year’s. You make a resolution and tell yourself that this year you will finally succeed. You’ll lose weight. You’ll spend more time with your family. You’ll start saying no. Whatever your resolution is, this is your opportunity to do something differently. Rather than announcing yet another resolution that loses steam [...]

4 Ways To Prevent Stress This Holiday Season

And Why it’s Important – Marie Wetmore Amidst the holiday shopping, hosting family events, and trying to keep up with end-of-the-year work expectations, you might be familiar with this real world grinch: holiday stress. According to a study by Greenberg research, 38 percent of Americans experience increased stress during the holidays. Although anyone can feel [...]

Thanksgiving in Five Minutes or Less

Gratitude Practice For Busy People – Marie Wetmore Celebrating Thanksgiving once a year is nice, but practicing thankfulness every day can change your life. It all comes down to gratitude. People who practice gratitude are more optimistic, happier, less anxious, less angry, and generally feel better about their lives. They even tend to have more [...]

Producing Access in Medford?

- Joe Viglione There’s a DVD of a Medford Hockey game that has not aired on Channel 3, yet the City Council applauded the hockey players the same night they had this interaction with Medford Community Cablevision, Inc. Isn’t a hockey game by Medford’s sports’ team just as important as a TV show which gets [...]