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Valentine’s Day is a celebration when we express our love, paint the town red, dress up and look forward to a romantic dinner with a partner, if we have one. However, this year as the pandemic still looms, the impulse is to lay this day of love at winter’s cold and viral doorstep in the spirit of social distancing. But not so fast. Living through the pandemic is disheartening, like an arrow shot through the heart. However, we’ve decided now is the perfect time to show our love safely and virtually with our gal pals in a Galentine’s Day celebration,...

If there were a Richter scale for worry, most of us would be off the charts. All of us right now have plenty to worry about—maintaining a roof over our heads and our health, paying for our next meal or medications, holding down a job and keeping our businesses afloat, educating our kids, dealing with isolation, facing climate change, just to name a few. We all worry from time to time. But we contend that worry is on a continuum. Some people have a small helping of worry and others cannot let go of the worry buffet. The small helping...

Wondering what to do all winter as it keeps many of us inside since the pandemic continues to upend our lives?  We’ve got a suggestion, hardly new but good for a very valid reason. Winter is a good time to tidy up and prepare for the unexpected. Many of us keep putting off the task. We’re too busy. We have zero interest. We’re paralyzed about how we might start, so we procrastinate… again.  But are you prepared if you don’t do it while you’re healthy, able and still around? What will the consequences be?  By doing it now and on...

25 Questions that make us uncomfortable, so before you do…. We love when our friends and family take an interest in us. However, when the questions veer toward the super-nosey or even rude, we start to feel squirmy and uncomfortable. How do you respond and reconcile your distaste for certain questions and still be civil and polite?   With the pandemic still surging and many of us having fewer face-to-face interactions, you’d think that the nosiness would decrease. Yet, we’re finding the exact opposite, and questions are ramping up to a new high.  Maybe many of us have more time on...

Baby, it’s cold outside. So, we ask, what’s there to love about winter? For some, including us, winter comes in like an unwelcome guest. It blows its cold air into our homes, on our faces, surrounds our bodies and makes our bones chill and ache. Brrrrr. And with winter, comes the possibility of snow. Albeit snow may be pretty to look at and ice can make the landscape look like a Currier and Ives print—it can be dangerous, too. We can slip, slide and fall. Driving is difficult. Walking is harder. And when snow gets dirty from too many footprints...