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DECEMBER 19, 2022
I Don’t Subscribe to ‘New Year, New You’ Although the holidays are a time of joy and gratitude, we often fill the last days of the year with forward thinking, our faces to the horizon, looking for ways to make the following year even better. This article was published in January 2017 and has been updated.
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DECEMBER 16, 2022
There, we’d spend the holidays together, as a family, without the overgifting and overdecorating and overeating of a typical Christmas. This trip was part birthday gift, part Christmas escape, part Florida homecoming. On Christmas Eve, she’d cook pigs in a blanket and we’d head over to the neighborhood holiday party.
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NOVEMBER 20, 2022
Two days later, the sleepy, snappy malaise that hovered over our house like some gray beast was gone, and holiday joy had returned. Gratitude log 24: While the journaling exercise eventually made my heart grow a few sizes and gave me a greater appreciation for my many gifts, it apparently did so with about the same power as caffeine.
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JANUARY 8, 2023
I’d spent most of the holiday scrubbing the cabinets of a rental home, fixing a crack in the ceiling and painting the living room. That’s barely halfway satisfied, and I was on a holiday vacation for most of it. In 2017, I left my job as the editor of a magazine to freelance and spend time with my dad in his final years.
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DECEMBER 11, 2022
It’s time to put our money where our mouths were when we marched for equality and social justice—which is the kind of holiday spirit I want to be a part of. Whether your loved one works from home or is an at-home mixologist, here are 25 gifts they’ll love that also support minority-owned businesses. Grovemade Laptop Stand.
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NOVEMBER 16, 2023
Growing up, Kate Stice Stewart would shop for a special Christmas gift for her mother. She, her brothers and their father would nestle it—or a clue about it—in a small needlepoint stocking on the tree, and it would be the last gift opened. Kate Stice Stewart: It’s 2017, and I’m on my laptop searching “fair trade.” She agreed.
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DECEMBER 20, 2016
I’m going to read fewer books in 2017. I received How to Read a Book as a gift in a book exchange this year, and it is the first book on my reading list starting January 1. This is another fantastic book by Ryan Holiday. By the way, Blinkist is offering a great promotion for the holiday season.
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