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From my perspective as a person--biologically speaking, of course--the anticipation we feel when Christmas is upon us falls into three categories: wanting to keep holiday nostalgia alive, making new memories for the new season and just wanting to get through the whole thing in one piece.Since ...

Anyone who reads this column on a regular basis knows that I love writing about holidays...and aliens...and toilets...and robots...and my tendency to lose focus on whatever I’m writing about...and...where was I going with this?Anyway, I like how some holidays influence the other days around ...

According to Hofmann: Photo finished

I don’t care how smart you are, the task of ordering your childĢƵ class photos can push any IQ to the breaking point.On its face, the order form for the school photos is a complex mess of choices.LetĢƵ say, for example, you have trouble deciding over paper or plastic bags at the grocery ...

I remember when Hershey Kisses with an almond inside were introduced. It rocked my world.Before that, we had the Hershey Kiss, a perfect little dab of chocolate goodness, but they shook things up by putting an almond inside! I was so overwhelmed, I had to give myself a timeout.Yes, I have no ...

We had a lot of cool things in the 1990s.For example, we had a cloned sheep, sneakers with air pumps built into them for some reason and a cliffhanger at the very end of the decade called “Y2K” when we didn’t know if computers would shutdown and the world would end in the numeric transfer ...

In my constant observation of childhood rituals through the eyes of a jaded adult, I have to say that people have really missed the point of trick-or-treating.Some say itĢƵ a custom to strengthen relationships of those in a neighborhood, others say itĢƵ a custom created by the candy company ...