The New Year already has flown, leaving its newborn status lying flat in the nest. And I’m left with all these extra calendars—two from local businesses, two from churches which somehow think I will be interested in adding their agenda to my schedule, and another complimentary calendar from a company wanting me to buy calendars …
Scientists have finally discovered another earth. Well, sort of. Earlier this month NASA’s Kepler space telescope team announced the discovery of “Kepler-22b,” located in what is called a “habitable zone,” meaning an environment that’s not too hot or too cold for the possibility of life. And just last week, the team unveiled two other earth-sized …
Christmas can be tough, especially for blended families. And apparently there are plenty of them. It’s been estimated that more than half of Americans live in some form of a blended family. Stepfamily therapist, Steven Straub, believes that the blended family will become, if it’s not already, the predominate family structure in the United States. …
Back in 1944, while teaching music in public school, Donald Gardner asked his second grade class what they wanted for Christmas. Noticing how almost all his students answered him with a lisp because they had at least one front tooth missing, Gardner sat down and wrote the song, “All I Want for Christmas is My …
“What part of Christmas do you find most stressful?” I asked my secretary the other day. “The shopping,” she said, without hesitating. “The shopping,” those two words just about cover it all. The traffic—trying to find a parking place, struggling to drive from one store to the next— and the crowds, rushing to get in …
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