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Holidays Gifts for the Newly Divorced or Separated

Do you have a recently divorced person on your holiday gift list? They may be the easiest person to buy for! When one household is split in two, most couples find themselves dividing their possessions. Many items need to be replaced. Where once there were two adults to divide the chores and maintenance of the [...]

How Is Your Life Now?

The Holiday Season is often a time to reflect and reminisce on our past. Much of that experience can be joyful and fun as we sit with family and friends telling stories of days gone by.  However, sometimes the walk down memory lane turns into a dark, treacherous path and we find ourselves lost in [...]

Holiday Guilt: The Gift that keeps on Giving…

And so it begins…The constant jockeying, bargaining, organizing, planning, and fretting that shows up every holiday season as we are bombarded with images of “creating the perfect holiday”. We struggle to meet the needs, wishes and expectations (and yes, sometimes, even the demands) of everyone in our lives. Realistically, we know we can’t please everyone [...]

The Great Onion of October 2011

The following essay was written on Saturday, October 30, 2011. If you live in Connecticut you have a pretty good idea as to why it is only getting posted now. But I am getting ahead of myself. What the Man from Apple Taught Us about Onions “When you first start off trying to solve a [...]

Trick or Treat! Here Comes Holiday Havoc!

     I was wearing flip flops when I retrieved the mail this morning. Catalogues of shiny Christmas baubles, cashmere sweaters, robotic reindeer, sinfully expensive chocolates and gorgeous gifts wrapped to coordinate with the living room decor (who, besides Martha Stewart, really does that?) are jam packed in the mailbox. Here it is again. I am in [...]