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My daughter-in-law emailed me this week to say her family had a blast at our house on Christmas. She’s thoughtful that way, but her statement gave me pause. When did people start having a blast again? I thought that term went out of fashion about the time I got married and my blast days tanked. [...]
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I’m sure it hasn’t escaped anyone that Halloween has become a BIG HOLIDAY, comparable in some ways to Christmas in the percentage of store space devoted to decorations and assorted costume paraphernalia. I recently stopped at one of those temporary Halloween stores that spring up this time of the year in commercial buildings vacated by [...]
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I flew to Salt Lake City this weekend to give presentations at a conference hosted by the Utah Chapter of the Association of Personal Historians. Before leaving California, I went online to Expedia to rent a car for the four days I would be in Utah. I picked out a cheap, no-frills compact offered by Budget [...]
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