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Making a move - By W. BRUCE CAMERON - 3/4/2007
I read recently that moving from one home to another is the second-most stressful activity that a human being can undertake, so I decided to try it. |
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In-law dread will spread - By CAROLYN HAX - 3/4/2007
Dear Carolyn: I loathe my in-laws. I have never shared that with them and I tried, early on, to be on my best behavior, but they never got friendlier or welcoming. |
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Song of guilt is the music of motherhood - By LISA EARLE MCLEOD - 3/3/2007
What are the tapes you play in your head? We've all got them. I'm sure there are a few blissfully contented people out there wandering around with the soundtrack from "The Sound of Music" playing cheerily in their heads. |
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The Communion question - By MARC GELLMAN, AND THOMAS HARTMAN - 3/3/2007
Q: My mom has late-stage Alzheimer's disease. When she was healthy, she was a devout Roman Catholic and rarely missed Sunday services. Now that she's in a nursing home, she's physically incapable of attending Mass, and hasn't been to church for years. |
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Daughter sets loose a menagerie - By SUSAN MARTIN - 3/2/2007
I have written about our cats on numerous occasions, but what occurred to me last weekend after picking up a little piece of yellow plastic that turned out to be a bunch of bananas is this: |
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The Buzz - By MARY KUNZ GOLDMAN - 3/1/2007
In season Buzz's Lent got off to a rocky start. At Ash Wednesday Mass at St. Joseph's Cathedral, we had forgotten about the annual media presence. |
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Son repelled by smoking - By JANN BLACKSTONE-FORD, AND SHARYL JUPE - 3/1/2007
Q: I'm 13 and my mom and dad are divorced. I live with my mom most of the time and see my dad every other weekend. My dad and his new wife are great to me, but they smoke all the time and I hate it. |
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Learn from your experience - By CAROLYN HAX - 2/28/2007
Dear Carolyn: Last year, after nearly four years with my girlfriend, I called off our wedding and moved out. We tried to date afterward, but we couldn't move on from our fundamental problems and I made the decision to call it over. |
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Stop the TV violence - By SUSAN CAMPBELL - 2/28/2007
When he was a child, Stephen Fuchs' heroes were television cowboys. If the Cisco Kid or Range Rider or Lone Ranger or Roy Rogers was thundering across the small screen, small Stephen was cheering him on in his boyhood New Jersey home. |
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Sitting in a plane, waiting - By LORI BORGMAN - 2/26/2007
When you have 60 passengers in an airplane idling on a snow-packed runway for two hours, it would seem the last thing you'd want to do is start handing out bottled water. |
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My official SWAT watch - By W. BRUCE CAMERON - 2/25/2007
If you ever find yourself in a hostage situation, feel free to call me, or send me an e-mail. I can handle it: I have a SWAT watch. That's right. Reporter Clark Kent was secretly Superman, and columnist W. Bruce Cameron is secretly the kind of guy who can wear a watch that's an exact duplicate of the one official SWAT team members wear in that movie about them. |
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Stop blaming yourself - By CAROLYN HAX - 2/25/2007
Dear Carolyn: Before my older brother was born, my grandfather died of lung disease because of smoking. At that time, my mom decided to quit smoking. |
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Will he or won't he? - By CAROLYN HAX - 2/25/2007
Dear Carolyn: How much truth is there to the "If he hasn't married you by now, he never will" scenario? It has been over four years and we are both over 30. |
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Forgiving a miserable childhood - By LISA EARLE MCLEOD - 2/24/2007
If your childhood played out like a scene from "Mommy Dearest," you know that poor parenting often casts a pallor over your entire life. While you might not have written a tell-all book or exposed their evil antics on the silver screen, the movie called "My Awful Childhood" plays in endless reruns inside your head. |
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Removing dust from ducts - By JAMES DULLEY - 2/23/2007
Dear Jim: Last time my furnace was serviced, the technician asked if I had ever had the ducts cleaned and I see ads on television about it. How can I tell if they need to be cleaned and how do I select a company? - Sean N. |
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