The Success Rate of New Year’s Resolutions

I bet you can guess what the number one New Year’s Resolution is. Weight loss. Now, looking around when I go down the street, I can see why. I can also see that most people fail to lose weight. Those gym membership cards are left on the coffee table or in the closet, gathering dust. [...]

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An Imperfect Christmas

‘Tis the night before Christmas, and all through the house, parents rush to fill trees. They eat Santa’s cookies, and and make sure the kids were asleep. They take the presents out of the impenetrable vault in the basement (the place the kids are most frightened of) and sneak upstairs to wrap them.

At dawn’s arrival, [...]

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It’s A Mall World After All

Recently, I took my family to our local mall to get some holiday pictures made. For quite some time, my mother has been pressuring me to do this, and I finally caved. So here I sat at the well-designed, bright, and cheery entrance area of Stop’n’Shoot Photos. Our appointment was at 7:00, but we arrived [...]

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Christmas Starts Earlier and Earlier

Every year the Christmas Craze starts a few days earlier than the last year. Christmas catalogs start to pollute mailboxes in mid-November, driving our mailman up the wall. Every day it seems that a new company sends us a spirited red catalog, just because I bought a two-dollar tube o’ toothpaste at one of their [...]

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