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  • 5 Ways to Not Let Politics Ruin Thanksgiving

    5 Ways to Not Let Politics Ruin Thanksgiving0

    Political divisions are ugly, and those divisions have spilled over onto the Thanksgiving table. One study found that “partisan differences cost American families 62 million person-hours of Thanksgiving time.” Presumably those same differences are impacting the quality of family time throughout the year. Time to count our blessings has become another opportunity to count our grievances. Here

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  • Swedish Death Cleaning and Aging in Place

    Swedish Death Cleaning and Aging in Place19

    Several of my relatives and friends are in the process of cleaning out a parent’s home. Some have tragically lost their aged parents, and some are rearranging living situations to accommodate medical needs. In each situation, however, there is an overwhelming factor: Each of them are dealing with a house stuffed with … stuff. No

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  • How Parenting Got So Intense

    How Parenting Got So Intense4

    You can’t find a better explanation of the rise of helicopter parenting and how, when and why that morphed into “intensive parenting” than this New York Times podcast from a few weeks ago, inspired by the surgeon general’s report on parental burnout. Michael Barbaro, host of “The Daily,” interviews Claire Cain Miller, a Times reporter

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