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C-4 Wednesday, Januar y 22, 2020 The Press-Dispatch HOME LIFE TO ADVERTISE: Call: 812-354-8500 Email: ads@pressdispatch.net Visit: 820 E. Poplar Street, Petersburg Deadline: 5 p.m. on Monday Youth First Today by Leah Lottes, Youth First, Inc. REAL ESTATE DEADLINE 5 p.m. Every Monday Katiedid vs... by Katiedid Langrock Saber-toothed contact AIR FRYER FRIED PICKLES MEALS IN Monica's MINUTES Share your favorite recipe! www.facebook.com/mealsinminutes Monica's Meals in Minutes PO Box 68, Petersburg, IN 47567 mealsinminutes@pressdispatch.net FACEBOOK MAIL EMAIL By Monica Sinclair As my husband and I were looking through air fryer reci- pes last week, we settled on one that we both want to try. While I'm not sure this recipe will be for everyone, I know there are those who love pickles and this will be the perfect fix for them, without having to pay for an ap- petizer at a restaurant. You will have a delicious snack in no time as it only takes 10 minutes to air fry them. Enjoy! INGREDIENTS • 2 c. dill pickle slices • 1 egg, whisked with 1 tbsp. water • 1/2 c. breadcrumbs • 1/4 c. freshly grated Parmesan • 1 tsp. dried oregano • 1 tsp. garlic powder • Ranch, for dipping DIRECTIONS 1. Using paper towels, pat pickle chips dry. In a me- dium bowl, stir together breadcrumbs, Parmesan, oregano and garlic powder. 2. Dredge pickle chips first in egg and then in the bread crumb mixture. Working in batches, place in a single layer in air fryer basket. Cook at 400° for 10 minutes. 3. Serve warm with ranch. Source: delish.com For many, the recent holidays re- minded us to be thankful no matter what our circumstances are, focusing on being thankful for what we have rather than what we don't have. The holidays are a great time to express gratitude. However, expressing grati- tude every day is even better. Gratitude is beneficial for your men- tal and physical health, so why not ex- press gratitude every day? As listed by Amy Morin on the web- site psychologytoday.com, here are some of the ways gratitude can ben- efit you: Gratitude can improve your phys- ical health. People who express grat- itude tend to experience fewer aches and pains. These individuals are also more likely to take care of their health by attending regular doctor visits and maintaining a healthy diet with exer- cise. Gratitude can help you sleep better. If you express gratitude at the end of the day by writing down a few things you are thankful for, you in- crease your chances of having a bet- ter night of sleep. Gratitude can help boost your self-esteem. When you are thankful, you are more likely to appreciate your positive life experiences rather than fo- cus on the negative ones. You are also less likely to compare yourself to oth- ers which can help you appreciate the accomplishments of others. Gratitude is also likely to increase your overall happiness. Gratitude can help foster resil- iency. Expressing gratitude is a great way to cope with stress and trauma at any time in your life. One of the best things about grati- tude is that you can express it at any age. Because gratitude has been prov- en to have so many benefits, the young- er you teach children about it, the bet- ter. According to Dr. Kevin Solomons' website borntobeworthless.com, there are many ways you can express grat- itude throughout the day. The easiest way is by simply saying thank you to people when they help you out. Thank- ing someone for their help not only makes that person feel good but also makes you feel good, which encourag- es you to keep saying thank you. When adults say thank you to others, this encourages kids and adolescents to do the same. Parents and teachers can model this behavior every day to students at home and in the classroom. Another way to express gratitude is to send thank you notes. This is a very good way to encourage kids and ado- lescents to say thank you. When you instill the habit in them when they are younger they are more likely to con- tinue the habit throughout their lives. It's also important to teach kids that writing thank you notes isn't just for gifts. A nice hand-written note can be sent to show appreciation when some- one does something special for them. An additional way to express daily gratitude is by keeping a journal. This can be something as simple as writing one thing you're thankful for each day. Getting into a routine of adding to your journal allows you to train your brain to be thankful every day. Teachers can incorporate gratitude into their days by taking having stu- dents write down what they are thank- ful for or allow them to share their grat- itude out loud. Parents can also do this activity together with their kids to show what they are thankful for and how it is important to their lives. Expressing gratitude has many ben- efits. It may seem like a small task, but it's the little things that can make such a big difference. Gratitude positively affects your mindset and your life- style, and that in itself is a reason to be thankful. This column is written by Leah Lottes, LSW, school social worker for Youth First, Inc., a local nonprofit dedicat- ed to strengthening youth and families. Youth First provides 59 Master's level so- cial workers to 80 schools in 10 Indiana counties. Over 39,000 youth and fami- lies per year have access to Youth First's school social work and after-school pro- grams that prevent substance abuse, pro- mote healthy behaviors, and maximize student success. EVERYDAY GRATITUDE CAN IMPROVE YOUR LIFE PETERSBURG PRESS DISPATCH Wednesday: 1/15, 1/22 and 1/29 2 col x 5" @ $6.80 col./in = $68.00 3x = $204.00 OWNER: Frank & Marlene Brittingham SALE MANAGER: Brad Horrall, 812-890-8255 AC63001504, AU01005815 www.schraderauction.com Call for color brochure or visit our website 800-451-2709 AUCTION LOCATION: Gibson Co. Fairgrounds Exhibit Hall, 409 N Embree St, Princeton IN 47670. DIRECTIONS TO PROPERTY: From Princeton: Take Hwy 65 north approx 7 mi. to Ford Rd (Co Rd 500 N) turn east & proceed 4 mi. to the property. From Petersburg: Take Hwy 56 west 6.7 miles to the jct of Hwy 56 & Hwy 65, continue on Hwy 65 1.5 miles to Coal Haul Rd (N Co Rd 700 W) turn south 2.5 miles to the property. Located Between Princeton And Petersburg ,QVSHFWLRQ'DWHV 11am - 1pm CST Tuesday, January 21 Monday, February 3 122± Tillable Acreage (FSA) • Alford Soils • Wooded Acreage • Hunting Tracts • Grain Storage • Machine Sheds/Shop This morning, I dropped my con- tact lens in the sink, and it took me no less than 10 minutes to find it. Yes, the lens is transparent, making it dif- ficult to find, but the thing about los- ing your contact is that you don't have the working eyes to find it. I have been in glasses since first grade. Back when I was a child, my dad, whom I've only ever known in glasses, said not to worry. My eye- sight could never be as bad as his. By junior high, I had doubled his pre- scription. The good thing about poor eyesight is how remarkably fixable it all seems. When I lived in Los Angeles, the on- ly time I thought about my poor eye- sight was when I'd consider the pos- sibility of having an earthquake in the middle of the night. If my glass- es fell off the bedside table during the Big One, how would I be able to nav- igate my way to safety? Would I be able to tell the difference between a helpful neighbor and a charging coy- ote among the rubble? I considered getting laser eye surgery. Problem solved. This was ignoring, of course, that I'd just been through hypotheti- cal earthquake devastation. But one fantasized tragedy at a time. Then we moved. We also learned that my son is legally blind in his left eye. No glasses or laser eye surgery could make that eye see the charg- ing coyote (or helpful neighbor). Up- on learning that, my irritation at my own prescription suddenly felt obnox- iously privileged. Both of my eyes see 20/20 when my contacts are in. That is, when I don't drop them into the sink. Lately, my writing partner and I have been pitching around a kids show about a girl liv- ing among the first Ho- mo sapiens. The show is a joke, blending much of our world today with life in prehistoric times. But for as slapstick and silly as the subject mat- ter is, I find myself odd- ly overridden with anxi- ety. I would not have sur- vived in the Stone Age. I would have run to hug my mother, only to discover she was a saber-toothed tiger. I'm guessing this embrace wouldn't have ended well. A prehistoric world without glasses would have been a world in which I would have met an early demise. Sur- vival of the fittest, with me being unfit. I'm also unfit exercise-wise. I've al- ways been a slow runner, and I'd sure- ly be even slower if I couldn't see any- thing in my path. You might be think- ing, "Oh, but the women didn't need to run back then, because they weren't on the hunt. They were home, picking berries." Well, it just so happens I also have trouble seeing different colors, so I'd have been the woman feeding all the children the poisonous purple ber- ries instead of the nutritional red ber- ries. My entire clan would have been in danger! My writing partner asks me why our new project has me in stress knots. "Berry Bees," an animated chil- dren's show I wrote and developed, just came out in Australia and Europe. It's about three kid spies who go un- dercover to defeat evildoers. That sto- ryline never had me worrying about whether I, too, could sur- vive an evil villain with a laser or an evil villain with a memory evaporator or an evil villain who traps me in a gold mine. I tell my writing partner that obviously, I didn't get stressed out when writing those scenarios because I am not the type of person who would ever be recruit- ed by a spy agency. Duh. So I would not find myself in those situ- ations. "Blimey, you suddenly find your- self a time machine and think you're gonna find yourself with a mammoth soon? " asks my writing partner. He's British. And rude. And right. Maybe it's easier to entertain the anxieties that aren't likely. My son asks me whether I think he could have survived in prehistor- ic times with his blind eye. I tell him he could have. We didn't even know about his eye for three years because his good eye had compensated for it so well. His good eye can see 20/20. He's also a fast runner. "Then I'll save you in cave man times, Mama," my 7-year-old says. This is why we have children. For the anxiety-reducing sweetness. And to thoroughly confuse them as to what era we're living through. Like Katiedid Langrock on Facebook, at http://www.facebook.com/katiedid- humor.