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Why is it that whenever you assume a New York winter will arrive with enough time to brace and gird your loins for the cold, it never actually happens like that? What kind of mean, morbid celestial force would allow for a blissfully temperate fall to dissolve in an instant, leaving us to desperately scramble…

For some of us, Thanksgiving dinner is a wondrous and welcome gathering of loved ones from far and wide for a meal championed all year long. And for others, well, it’s just not. Due to reasons they may or may not have any control over, a path less conventional, less reliant on delegation and wading…

On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me a heads-up that his uncle loves to debate politics at the dinner table.  Thanks to situations like this one, home, whether yours or someone else’s, isn’t always the move for the holidays. Or maybe you don’t celebrate Christmas at all. Which means it’s…