Santa has changed in two salient ways since I was a kid – he is making much cooler toys and he has become exceedingly more generous.
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All Aboard for the Holiday Train Show at the New York Botanical Garden
This year at the NYBG's annual spectacular show, the entire presentation reflects the notions of the historic, the organic, and the sustainable.
Read More »Thanksgiving Conversation Guidelines – Having a Trump-free Dinner!
Creation of a Don't Go There List will assist you in keeping the holiday dinner conversation from getting out of control.
Read More »Veterans Day and Everyday – Let’s Make Sure to Honor Our Vets
Veterans deserve respect and the eternal gratitude of a nation that owes everything to them.
Read More »Still Touring the World Through Google? Time to Get on That Plane
The next time you find a beautiful image on Google of a painting, or a place, if you can see yourself in that image, it’s time to go have the real experience.
Read More »Now is the Time to Prepare for Christmas
The Christmas season has a way of sneaking up on you. Before you know it, there are only a couple of weeks left to purchase gifts, book flights, and ask for time off from work. But what if you took care of all of those things five or six months in advance?
Read More »Officials Warn People to Stay Safe This Fourth of July
The Fourth of July can be deadly – stay safe!
Read More »Why Mother’s Day Is Like Christmas While Father’s Day Is More Like Arbor Day
Today I am not expecting much, and that in itself makes things go better.
Read More »A Christmas Dilemma: To Give or Not to Give Gift Receipts
Is the inclusion of a gift receipt just a fail-safe mechanism or is it a coded message that the giver thinks the recipient will not like the gift?
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘A Christmas Carol’ from Blessed Unrest
This adaptation of Dickens's classic tale is a mélange of social commentary, supernatural visitations, flashbacks, comic business, metatheatrical kidding around, and sentiment, all in the service of a classic story we seem to need to keep retelling.
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