This Year, Make A New Year’s Resolution Resolution

No, that’s not a typo in the title. I’m talking about a resolution you absolutely need to make about your actual New Year’s resolutions. Perhaps with this “resolution resolution,” you might actually follow through with your annualized best …
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Christmas Trees Replace Forests as Crop of Choice

Environmental campaigners in Germany are up in arms because increasing areas of woodland are being switched to the cultivation of Christmas trees, which is far more lucrative than normal forests. Now a state government wants to limit the trend …
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Christmas memories of Grandma spur Bronx mom to honor her memory by brightening holiday for elderly

Lena White has always tried to give back during the holidays. In years past, she’s volunteered at various functions, like giving out turkey dinners around Thanksgiving. This year, the young mother of four boys was looking to do “something different …
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Ghost of Christening present: Late husband’s face spotted in spooky photo at church service

Heather was at the christening of granddaughter Mia-Bella when the baby’s uncle, Jamie Sewell, 29, snapped the phantom face on his mobile. It was not until later, when the family was in the pub looking at the day’s pictures on Facebook, that Heather …
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Blue Christmas services help with grieving during holidays

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Congregants heard no triumphant organ fanfares, no joyous Christmas carols, only quiet readings and prayers in a sanctuary lit with votives amid the dusk of late afternoon. The music was a soft guitar strumming, accompanying …
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Post Divorce Christmas: Making the Most of Being Alone

Most people happily anticipate the Christmas season, but for some, a post-divorce Christmas can be a time of loneliness, isolation, depression, conflict over child visitation schedules and nasty thoughts of your ex instead of sugar plums dancing …
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Lightbulb babies and fairytale castles: Your Christmas traditions

(CNN)– Christmas is synonymous with colorful decorations, festive markets and extravagant quantities of food. But while most yuletide celebrations share these general characteristics, there are of course a host of distinctive traditions and …
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Ghost of Christening present: Late husband’s face spotted in spooky photo at church service

Heather was at the christening of granddaughter Mia-Bella when the baby’s uncle, Jamie Sewell, 29, snapped the phantom face on his mobile. It was not until later, when the family was in the pub looking at the day’s pictures on Facebook, that Heather …
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Did dead grandfather make an ghostly appearance at christening of his granddaughter? Apparition spotted on the wall of church in Facebook picture

The black and white face can be seen above the church font hovering over baby Mia-Bella Kennett and the rest of the … it is all very spooky and perhaps not what you want to see at a christening. ‘I was in the pub afterwards when I first saw the Facebook …
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