December 22, 2011

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Holidayologists Link Sugar Coma To Feelings of Comfort and Joy

Home for the holidays. Thirty-Relatives-In-One-House Day.  Cousin Liddy-Beans (it’s always the one with the WTF nickname) has sequestered you in the corner of the dining room so that she can finish telling you about her tricky driveway: hence, the arm sling and the incessant request for a ride home. She’s slurring on 25 minutes now, [...]

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December 16, 2011

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Rudolph Pens Tell-All Book: Santa Sucks

Everyone knows the story.  Rudolph is different. He has a red nose.  His genius parents think they’re helping by covering it up with dirt (thanks Mom and Dad). All the other bully reindeer punks not only laugh and call him names, but also won’t let him join in any reindeer games (this is well-documented). Enter [...]

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December 9, 2011

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Move Over Barbie, Siri Can Even Do Math

Looks like there’s a new Little Miss Perfect in town, and her name is Siri, iphone’s built-in personal assistant. Her voice is smart-sexy-friendly-witty and suggests that she looks like the perfect supermodel blend of all races. Above all, she knows everything our brains should already know but no longer have the desire to retain because [...]

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December 2, 2011

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Glass One Percent Full Deemed Empty

Do you ever find yourself hating on a holiday party because you are certain that the one you chose not to attend will redefine the concept of fun and be talked about for years to come? Do you ever find yourself in a restaurant hating on where the server seated you because you are certain [...]

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November 30, 2011

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The Self-Focused Gift: A Seasonal Favorite

People are always telling you that before you can love anyone else, you have to love yourself.  So don’t start the selfless journey of holiday shopping until you spend a few weeks buying self-focused gifts.  The clinical term for this behavior is “practice shopping,” and studies have shown that it can jump start your holiday [...]

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November 28, 2011

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Cyber Monday: The War on Whatnot

Cyber Monday. Sounds suspect. I’m picturing millions of people in front of their computers in makeshift warrior space suits of duct tape and old sports equipment, e-bracing themselves for the 30% off flash sale tables and e-scrambling to check out before their chosen items have been bought up by the quicker, more experienced cyber shopper [...]

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October 16, 2011

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Chunky Sweater Inspires World Peace

I’m an athletic, health-conscious sort of person; however, running a marathon is not something on any of my To Do lists (which can be more accurately defined as To Do notebooks in a giant bin). “Bad knee” or “not enough slow-twitch muscle fibers” are my favorite excuses, but, truthfully, it just seems like torture. Watching [...]

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October 7, 2011

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Overachiever Puts Nothing on To Do List

Welcome to THIS Saturday; let’s try something different. Skip the shower; you’ve already taken thousands of them. Ignore the sticky note To Do lists that are screaming for your attention. Other than your mouth, refrain from using all other communication devices. Grab a coffee and make out with attractive strangers. (Kidding, but don’t rule out [...]

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September 29, 2011

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Posting and Pasta Can Kill a Friendship

Did you really need to tell the world that you checked into the Pasta Barn at 5:36pm last Saturday? Did you feel more validated as a person after 65 people “liked” that you did that?  What does that even mean anyway? Do they like you?  Do they like pasta? Do they like you eating pasta? [...]

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September 23, 2011

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Facebook Makes It Easier to Live in the Moment

To live in the moment. Can it still be done with all the modern-day technology blurring the past, present and future? Has the Digital Age rendered this concept impossible? I like the notion that our brains have mastered the skill of merging all three tenses into one big happy Here & Now and don’t need [...]

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September 16, 2011

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Feeling Chilly: A Nation at a Crossroads

The unofficial first day of Fall happens when you leave the house in the morning and feel chilly: not chilly enough to change into something warmer, but just chilly enough to regret not doing so for the rest of the day. Coping with chilliness now consumes you. You crank up the heat in your car, set [...]

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