[display_podcast] Where We Live Shapes Our Lives Where we live shapes who we are and who we become.  The place where we lived growing up shapes our values and thought-processes and preferences and behaviors.  I love hearing people’s stories.  I love asking people about where they’re from and what their life was like growing up.  Why?  Because our past has a way of shaping our present and guiding our future.  I spent the most formative years of my life, grades one through twelve, in a small country town of [...]

[display_podcast] What We Love Watching Most of us love watching television.  The average American watches between four and five hours of television a day.  Two thirds of us watch television while we eat dinner.  Over half of us pay for cable TV.  We love television.  We love it so much that we usually make the TV the centerpiece of our living rooms.  So much that we’ll spend money we don’t have on getting bigger and better and more TV’s.  So much that, at the end of a long day, [...]