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Fifty years of holiday memories

SixtiesRemember?  Bob Hope performing for the troopsKitchen Smelled like: Julia Child’s beef bourguignonOn the hi-fi: Nat King Cole, “The Christmas Song”On the tube: Charlie Brown, Rudolph, Frosty, and the Grinch specialsIn theaters: Babes in Toyland, […]
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Happy Halloween

Charlie Brown is the one person I identify with.  C.B. is such a loser.  He wasn’t even the star of his own Halloween special.Chris Rock
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9-1-1 call

“Hello, is this the Police?”“Yes.  What do you want?”“I’m calling to report about my neighbor Billy Smith!  He is hiding marijuana inside his firewood.”“Thank you very much for the call, sir.”The next day, the Police […]
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Happy New Year!

For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice, And to make an end is to make a beginning.T. S. Eliot
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Eight Candles, Nine Lives

We parents work so hard to relay the historical and spiritual import of religious holidays.  No, we explain, Hanukkah is not primarily about gift giving; it’s about a long-ago freedom struggle.  The eight-day winter holiday […]