About a month ago I told you about my friend Kristen who was raising her gloves one last time in her match against cancer. Along with her partner, whom she had married in a lovely lake shore ceremony in September, she fought cancer for almost two years. It began in her ovaries and coursed its [...]
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Scene: Sonny sits at the dinner table. His siblings have long since finished their dinner and are now cleaning their rooms. The bathwater is running. Raging Dad: “Sonny! Eat. Your. Mac. And. Cheese!” Sonny: “Okay!” He doesn’t eat. Raging blood pressure rising. Then, an idea. Time to pull out the Santa mind games again. RD: [...]
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One of the benefits of being less than three months out from Christmas is that we can use Santa as a tool to manipulate the children into good behavior. The whole “he knows if you’ve been bad or good” shtick is brilliant, and I am not above bilking it for all it’s worth. When I [...]
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