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Reasons to not make New Year’s Resolutions
Reasons to not make New Year’s Resolutions
If I hear that “New Year, New You” tagline one more time during the holidays, I am going to go crazy. By making a resolution for a whole year, you could be setting yourself up for failure because you have a lot of time to either make or break a resolution. I know there are a lot of people, including myself, who don’t have enough self discipline to make the resolutions last a whole year. Making a resolution and trying to hold yourself accountable for it for a whole year is overwhelming and will often times make you feel like a failure simply because you have a lot of time to either make the resolution work or to try and fail. 01/01/2023 05:00 AM
Cold enough for you?
Cold enough for you?
I won’t hazard a guess as to whether it achieves immortality like “grassy knoll” or “hanging chads,” but surely the phrase “bomb cyclone storm” will remain in the public consciousness of those who endured its cruelties. 01/01/2023 05:00 AM
‘Let’s take a trip for the holidays,’ they said
‘Let’s take a trip for the holidays,’ they said
For years, I’ve watched friends and acquaintances take family trips during the holiday season to exciting locations like Disney World, Hawaii, Colorado and Cracker Barrel. 01/01/2023 05:00 AM
2022 food trends: Love them or hate them?
2022 food trends: Love them or hate them?
As I write this year-end essay about 2022 trends in food and dining, I must confess that I’m playing catch-up. 12/25/2022 04:00 AM
Christmas isn't always holly jolly – even some of its best-loved songs are bittersweet
Christmas isn't always holly jolly – even some of its best-loved songs are bittersweet
(THE CONVERSATION) In American culture, Christmas is supposed to be synonymous with joy. The familiar carols proclaim this message, with “Joy to the World” resounding in thousands of churches, while its secular counterpart exhorts listeners to have “A Holly Jolly Christmas.” 12/25/2022 04:00 AM
Will this be your best Christmas ever?
Will this be your best Christmas ever?
When writing advertising copy, I sometimes find myself desperately searching for a zinger of a tag line – and settling for trite admonitions such as “Make this the best hunting season ever” or “Make this the best summer vacation ever.” 12/18/2022 05:00 AM
When the holidays are hard
When the holidays are hard
“It’s the most wonderful time of the year.” However, for many of us, the holidays are the hardest part of the year. We suffer with loneliness, isolation, depression and grief. Some of us may have lost very close family members, lost a marriage, or lost a job. These losses can lead to extreme loneliness. With such excessive loneliness, we tend to isolate. We avoid holiday parties and making friends. If we make friends, we are scared that we would lose them just like we lost our family members. 12/18/2022 05:00 AM
Christmas lights: a judgmental guide
Christmas lights: a judgmental guide
One of my fondest childhood memories of Christmas in the 1970’s was riding around in the family station wagon, “Bessie,” to look at Christmas lights while I whined to my parents about needing a snack – again. There was something magical about a familiar evening landscape transformed to a radiant wonderland at the expense of someone’s lumbar spine. 12/18/2022 05:00 AM
Did someone say…‘Shazam’?
Did someone say…‘Shazam’?
Saint Nick wasn’t the only man in a red suit that magical Christmas season 50 years ago. 12/11/2022 05:00 AM
THE CONVERSATION
THE CONVERSATION
Near record-high numbers of young people voted during the midterms, signaling a possible shift – or exception – in voting trends 12/11/2022 05:00 AM
Invasion of the college students
Invasion of the college students
Imagine, if you will, a tranquil late-autumn evening. It’s the first day of your Thanksgiving holiday, and you are reclining in your easy chair, enjoying the warmth and gently dancing flames of your fireplace insert – with semi-realistic gas logs – and sipping a cup of warm tea from your new Keurig machine that Bed Bath & Beyond put on sale for 50% off immediately after your purchase. 12/04/2022 05:00 AM
‘Y’all,’ that most Southern of Southernisms, is going mainstream — and it’s about time
‘Y’all,’ that most Southern of Southernisms, is going mainstream — and it’s about time
(THE CONVERSATION) Southern Living magazine once described “y’all” as “the quintessential Southern pronoun.” It’s as iconically Southern as sweet tea and grits. 12/04/2022 05:00 AM
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