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Living - Nov. 6, 2009
Another sure sign that Christmas is coming soon
We just finish Halloween, but Christmas is around the corner. Workers were installing decorations and trees at Cathedral Square Park.
Tags: cathedral square, christmas

Holiday Guide - Dec. 26, 2008
A cure for the Christmas blues
I don't recommend kids as a cure very often, because they are a remedy that comes with a long-term commitment not everyone is willing to make. So, while I won't tell you that having a kid is the cure for your holiday blahs, I can assure you, it was a miracle elixir for me.
Tags: christmas, toddlers, kids

Holiday Guide - Dec. 25, 2008
Video of the Day: A Christmas speech from Linus
In the closing moments of one of the best animated Chirstmas specials, Linus delivers a classic speech on the meaning of Christmas.
Tags: christmas, linus, peanuts

Holiday Guide - Dec. 24, 2008
An early Christmas gift
This morning I awoke to find a combination of things that felt a little like a commuter's early Christmas gift.
Tags: traffic, commuter, snow, Christmas

Holiday Guide - Dec. 19, 2008
A gift a day: Snowblower
If anyone near and dear to you is still shoveling this stuff by hand (and by spine), show some mercy and hit the hardware store in time for Christmas!
Tags: snowblower, Christmas

Living - Sept. 9, 2009
The 40 Days and 40 Nights of 40: Day 8
The 40 Days and 40 Nights of 40: Day 8 Labor Day has come and gone, and our next holiday isn’t until Thanksgiving in November, when it will be “officially” fall.  Where’s did the time go? On the up side, time does go by so very quickly as you get older.&nb...
Tags: fall, summer, time, thanksgiving, christmas

Living - Jan. 5, 2009
Is It So Wrong to Ho-Ho-Ho for So Long?
Maybe it was the long 2 weeks home with the kids (and the holiday decorations) but I'm WAY over Christmas earlier this year than ever before.  I was ready to take down the decorations on Sunday.  But, in years past, I've left up my 4 trees and various decorations until after the Superbo...
Tags: Christmas, decoration, holiday

Arts & Entertainment - Dec. 26, 2008
A Holiday Spree
Thursday December 25th, 2008 - Chicago, ILWell at least my Christmas wasn’t the worst one in America. Far from it. I learned that when my cousin Brett called and asked if I happened to be in L.A. by any chance. I didn’t know why he would ask that and then he told me some guy my age dr...
Tags: Christmas

Kids & Family - Dec. 25, 2008
Christmas Again?
Wednesday December 24th, 2008 - Milwaukee, WI/Lake Villa, ILChristmas time is the dented can’s worst nightmare. This is the time all that went wrong backs up like a clogged toilet and settles in the crevices of the brain and festers until it has infected the rest of the healthy thoughts. So...
Tags: Christmas, Red Lobster

Kids & Family - Dec. 24, 2008
Ready for My Wrap Album
OK so this is a procrastination technique.  Plain and simple.  I have presents to wrap and got introspective...or that's my excuse right now anyhow.  I'm getting pensive and asking a lot of questions in my head about wrapping gifts as I'm doing it poorly--2 days before Santa arrive...
Tags: Christmas, presents, wrapping paper