A few weeks ago I found that I suffer from a sleep disorder. In finding information on Sleep Apnea I found that

"…Sleep disorders are thought to affect 40 million people in the United States alone. The total cost to the public that result from these disorders are almost impossible to estimate,

as they include not only medical care costs but also accident costs, since accidents often are associated with sleep deprivation. (from Sleep and Breathing by edited by Claude Lenfant, Published by Marcel Dekker Inc, New York 1994)

Many of us make new years resolutions.  The idea is to change some things ourselves, or about their lives. Things like:

• Loose weight
• Get in shape
• Eat healthier
• Exercise more
• Learn how to use the computer

Many people break those resolutions by February.
Somewhere I heard that in order for something to become a habit you have to repeat it 21 times.  
So theoretically if we do some thing everyday for 3 weeks, it will be come a habit and become much easier to continue.

The Computer Classes at JDL are very popular, especially the beginning and introduction classes. This month (December) we are offering some more advanced classes, one of which is how to create your own Blog web page.

The library has several books on creating blogs and web pages go to the Catalog and do a subject search for Web Pages

In case you do not know what a blog is- the word itself is a combination of web log. Entries are written in chronological order and usually placed in reverse chronological order.

Good news for Jan Karon fans: She has published her; first new adult book in about 2 years,

This time of year, from the end of November through early January is a time loaded with tradition. In my family we celebrate Christmas, other families celebrate, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and some don’t “celebrate” holidays. Religious connotations aside many of us have family traditions that we practice year after year. That’s what a tradition is, customs, practices, rituals that we repeat over and over.