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Now We Are Two

Happy second birthday, princess. You will always be daddy’s little girl.

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Baby Jillian

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Resolution One. Show Yourself.

At every turn, our society tells me I’m not good enough. I don’t have the sexiest new sportscar. I don’t have a gigantic house with acres of property. I don’t have a country club membership. I can’t go to the movies every weekend to see the new Hollywood blockbuster. To me, an iPad is not...

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Three resolutions for a better you

The three things that I believe will lead to both personal and professional success in 2011. They’ll help you just as much. Coming in 2011 (or, tomorrow).

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One more turn of the seasons

Turkeys have walked wild on this continent since the last ice age, whereas Old Europe was quite turkeyless. Corn pudding may be the oldest New World comfort food; pumpkins and cranberries, too, are exclusively ours. It’s all American, the right stuff at the right time. To this tasty assembly add a cohort of female relatives sharing work and...

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All Hallows’ Eve

Full in the passage of the vale, above, A sable, silent, solemn forest stood; Where nought but shadowy forms was seen to move, As Idless fancied in her dreaming mood: And up the hills, on either side, a wood Of blackening pines, aye waving to and fro, Sent forth a sleepy horror through the blood;...

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