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One day I woke up and learned, at  62 years old, that my significant other,the love of my life, was having an affair with his ex-wife. I immediately threw him [...]

There are many of us for whom the secular Christmas is fraught with landmines of memories. In our dysfunctional ways we learn to manage these memories. We avoid the holiday, [...]

‘Tis the week of the season when we often allow the lists to dominate and permit anxiety the role of dominant feeling. More put-upon than under the spell of what [...]

Santa opened the trunk of the Cadillac and removed the presents. I watched him from my bedroom window, looking down through the branches of the big oak tree that was [...]

December temperatures are sending those of us in the East running off to our sock drawer and wondering if those wool tights we bought last year are now a) [...]

I did not feel well enough to travel this holiday. Normally, I would have pushed my way through it, but my husband gave me this gift of the day, the [...]

My mom is one of six sisters. Every Thanksgiving, my mother’s family gathers at Aunt Ruthanne and Uncle Ron’s house in Connecticut. The table stretches from the dining room into [...]

“Let’s have a family Thanksgiving,” I said to my friend Mary, “without any blood relatives.” It was a time a few years ago when I had had my fill of [...]

Our  Halloween poem comes from a time two centuries after the Scottish witches, below, were first evoked. Janet Little (1759–1813), known to her readers as “the Scotch milkmaid,” wrote in [...]