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Thank You Card Aversion
Our Christmas holidays have ignited these past years into bonfires of activities. The running of the gauntlet features tree-buying, tree-decorating, tree-needle picking-up, holiday card sending and receiving, baking, shopping, gift hinting and gift puzzling out what the picker members of the family want, wrapping said gifts, coordinating relatives’ visits and a general implosion of life [...]
Christmas Spirit Around the Corner
The Christmas spirit came to me one year in the guise of a street fight. I was in Chicago shopping and touring the city, and since it was my first visit, I spent the evening craning and turning in order to take in the Art Deco downtown with its sweeping canyons of elegant buildings. My [...]
The Clinic
Paul said I needed to work with a seasoned therapist, so he assigned me to shadow a social worker named Eleanor who had been at the clinic for over ten years. She was a middle-aged woman with a sweet face and graying hair parted primly down the middle with razor-edged exactness. She had a penchant [...]