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Martha Sez: Holiday stress can snowball

I don’t mean to alarm you, but Santa Claus is coming to town. Holiday stress is real. There is no getting around it. True, you could always decide, either for religious or practical or purely curmudgeonly reasons, to eschew the holiday season, but it is highly unlikely that you will be able ...

Share if You Lived to Tell About It

Curmudgeons, rejoice — but don’t let on. Just mumble your thanks surreptitiously into your oatmeal. If your glasses fog up no one will see the gleam in your eye. Curmudgeons everywhere now have the perfect vehicle for expressing and disseminating their cranky and cantankerous opinions and ...

Navigating the ‘precious opportunity’ of college

Do you have a daughter or son planning to go to college, or if in college, will they be home for the holidays? If so, go to Bookstore Plus or your favorite bookseller and get a copy of Philip Glotzbach's recently published Embrace Your Freedom: Winning Strategies to Succeed in College and Life. ...

On the Scene: Shipman Center gives thanks

At the Shipman Center's annual Thanks for Giving Dinner, where they honor people who have contributed through cash, in-kind donations, and volunteerism, the board was especially grateful for the $30,203.27 raised through the Center's Dmitry's Feast of the Peaks and Music Festival, aka Dmitry ...

Our Animals Ourselves: Home for the Holidays

Editor’s note: This column was first published in 2017. My husband often tells me the story about the best Christmas morning he ever had. He was an only child and even though he had a myriad of cousins who lived right down the road his most loved and trusted companion was his dog ...

Martha Sez: Is it OK To Say Gingerbread Man?

Well, here we are, entering the great maw of the holiday season. I am now taking time out from my list-making to write this column, just before Thanksgiving Day. Making holiday lists is the same every year, and every year I wonder: Why does it take so long to accomplish the tasks so clearly ...