Within the next week or so, I will send my stepson to the attic — I am such a wicked stepmother — so that he can haul down our considerably large collection of Christmas decorations. Then he, my husband and our oldest daughter will spend the better part of an afternoon putting up the Christmas [...]

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Tired of the same old doom and gloom? Are bleak and depressing headlines like, “US soldier, Afghan Killed by Roadside Bomb” and “Jobless Claims Surge, Market Seeks Traction” getting you down?
Then click your world-weary self over to HappyNews.com and discover that the world really isn’t going to hell in a handbasket after all.
HappyNews.com, whose [...]

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Somewhere in between Halloween and the various other December holidays is my favorite of America’s Q4 celebrations. It is a day when I get up early to cook lots of food, which I hope will be consumed by lots of people so that I do not have to store the leftovers and make my [...]

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From time to time, I perform a vanity search over at Technorati, to see who might be talking about me because the usual deafening cybersilence keeps me humble — but not this time.
Wow! I’m getting famous! 56 days ago (I took a two-month break from the blogging thing), somebody who calls himself “The Formal [...]

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Principles are easy to maintain when we feel safe and secure, but they mean nothing when we cast them aside the moment some aspect of them makes us uncomfortable.
The ACLU is often misunderstood because of the odd bedfellows it has kept. When some people learn how the ACLU has stood up for the rights [...]

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