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Kids and Stress What are your favorite childhood memories of the holidays? The meals? Tag football? Finding hidden gifts in the closet, carefully unwrapping them to peek inside, and then putting them back before you were discovered? Snowball fights with Uncle Howard?...Hopefully, you have some great holiday memories. All too often, however, holiday stress hijacks our lives. Parties, expenses, out of town guests, travel, preparing food, and extra activities add demands on our time...more

The Missouri Dinosaur It's hard to imagine that Missouri was once a tropical environment similar to the Bahamas. The fossils and rocks found here indicate that Missouri was occasionally covered by a warm, shallow sea, starting some 500 million years ago during the Cambrian Period. These ancient waters were home to an array of colorful shellfish and unique creatures. Their fossils reveal much about Missouri's...more

Achieve Your Goals It's the day after Thanksgiving and New Year’s resolutions are beginning to swell my brain like yesterday’s swollen belly. I'm sure if you are anything like me, this time of year you are bombarded with emails, conversations and thoughts about new years resolutions. Normally I try to avoid the whole topic, but this year I have decided I will make a strong effort to write my goals down and give it my best effort. It seems the reason so many people fail to achieve the resolutions...more