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I spent much of the ride to Thanksgiving dinner with my eyes focused on my phone, my mind working to distract itself with anything besides the adventure we were undertaking.
This was, after all, …
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Jeanne Sager
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11/30/21
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The text came in the middle of the day. I checked my phone, expecting to see the usual: A request that I pick up yogurt when I went to the grocery store, a reminder from my teen that they were …
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Jeanne Sager
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11/23/21
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It’s almost become instinctive. You cough in the middle of a Zoom meeting and quickly announce, “Don’t worry. It’s not COVID.”
Not that they could catch it anyway. …
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Jeanne Sager
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11/16/21
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Paging through the Democrat’s recent Pride publication for the Sullivan County Chamber of Commerce, I spotted something unexpected.
Did I see that the Chamber had named a 45-year-old a …
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Jeanne Sager
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11/9/21
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Like most parents in Sullivan County, when the flash flood warning alarm blared from my cellphone, my first thought was “my daughter.”
It was the middle of the day and my kid was …
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Jeanne Sager
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11/2/21
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I’m not sure when it began, exactly, but I’ve arrived at that stage of life when you begin to refer to people as “so and so’s grandkid.”
If you haven’t …
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Jeanne Sager
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10/26/21
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It started simply enough. A hair clipper plugged into the bathroom outlet to be used, a quick haircut, and then the clipper was forgotten. As a family we each left for the day to do whatever it was …
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Jeanne Sager
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10/19/21
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Asking a wedding photographer to rank favorite weddings is like asking a parent to rank favorite children. It just can’t be done…or at least should not be done publicly. I love all the …
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Jeanne Sager
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10/12/21
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It’s that time of year when the store shelves are filled with all things spooky — ghosts, zombies, goblins, witches ... and black cats.
If you’re thinking one of these things …
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Jeanne Sager
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10/5/21
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Over the years, I’ve shot hundreds of weddings. First weddings. Second weddings. I even shot a fourth wedding once. And every single time, I marvel at the willingness of two people to come …
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Jeanne Sager
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9/28/21
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Tell me if this sounds familiar.
The first time you had to fill out a W2 or a W9, you just stared at the blank page before you like you’d been given a code without the cypher.
Don’t …
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Jeanne Sager
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9/21/21
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