{"id":659,"date":"2007-11-23T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-23T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beyondblue\/2007\/11\/not-so-black-friday.html"},"modified":"2007-11-23T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-23T10:30:00","slug":"not-so-black-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/2007\/11\/not-so-black-friday.html","title":{"rendered":"Not So Black Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve said this in prior posts: I don&#8217;t do stores in between Halloween and New Year&#8217;s. It&#8217;s not good for my health. So I&#8217;m not shopping today. I&#8217;m doing the second most dangerous activity to my health &#8230; traveling.<br \/>\nTherefore, I don&#8217;t have an interview for today.<br \/>\nSorry.<br \/>\nNext week I will resume with an interview of one of our dearest Beyond Blue readers: <a href=\"http:\/\/community.beliefnet.com\/doxieman122\">Larry Parker<\/a>. I think it was Lynn who suggested I start interviewing Beyond Blue readers along with the experts and fellow mental-health bloggers I&#8217;ve found. I thought that was a wonderful idea.<br \/>\nIn order to do that, I need to know which of you would be open to be interviewed!!!??!!<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t need to include a picture and your last name, so you can stay anonymous if you want to keep you day job. (I lost mine a long time ago, and so did Larry, so we don&#8217;t give a hoot if our last names and pictures are posted.)<br \/>\nThese are the names on my list of to-be interviews for now: <a href=\"http:\/\/wsquared.journalspace.com\/\">Wendi Wright of Friday&#8217;s Child<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/nyjlm.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/on-writing.html\">Jennifer, aka NYJLM<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/everyoneneedstherapy.blogspot.com\/\">TherapyDoc from Everyone Needs Therapy<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.findingoptimism.com\/\">James Bishop from Finding Optimism<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/thesplinteredmind.blogspot.com\/\">Douglas Cootey from The Splintered Mind<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/chatteringmind\/\">Amy Cunningham (from Chattering Mind)<\/a>, Mike Leach (my writing\/spiritual mentor), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tracythompson.com\/\">Tracy Thompson (blogger and author)<\/a>, and a few others that I&#8217;m forgetting.<br \/>\nIf you want to be on the list yourself, or if you have a person in mind that you&#8217;d like me to interview, please please please let me know by posting your suggestion as a comment to this post.<br \/>\nHappy Black Friday &#8230; may it not be black for you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve said this in prior posts: I don&#8217;t do stores in between Halloween and New Year&#8217;s. 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