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Blogversation 2012: What would your perfect holiday season look like?

Blogversation 2012: What would your perfect holiday season look like?

Throughout this year, several bloggers will engage in a conversation here and on their blogs — asking questions of each other and responding. Others are absolutely welcome to join the conversation, as well. Learn more about the ladies of Blogversation 2012. Today’s question comes from Eleanor Traubman, Creative Times, @creativetimes on Twitter: If you could wave a magic wand and…

Everything I need to know about Christmas, I learned from the Grinch

Everything I need to know about Christmas, I learned from the Grinch

Holiday season is upon us, and with it comes numerous sources of stress: The search for the perfect gift. The pressure to throw the perfect party. Worries about whether long-simmering family tensions will boil over at the dinner table. Instead of Norman Rockwell scenes of snow-dusted bliss, my dad, the retired cop, tells blood-curdling stories of domestic scenes on Christmas…