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I used to think May was an odd time of the year for America to mark Mental Health Awareness Month.
Why not in December when so many of us struggle with the overwhelm of the holidays …
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Jeanne Sager
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5/21/24
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My daughter has recently been rewatching The Gilmore Girls, a brilliant TV series that began airing in 2000 and finished its run in 2007. It is the story of Lorelai Gilmore, a single mom raising her …
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Kathy Werner
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5/17/24
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When I’d enter the side door of the school, I had two choices.
I could turn right immediately, head up the stairs and venture past the gym first, then the cafeteria before making …
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Jeanne Sager
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4/23/24
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Our trip to Lake Placid coincided with the World Cup competition of the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) which organizes all the sliding events seen in the Winter Olympics. …
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Kathy Werner
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4/19/24
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Have you noticed a new pattern emerging in those “where you are from” conversations?
The shift was slow at first, only for it to take on hyperspeed since the pandemic began. …
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Jeanne Sager
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4/16/24
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(I’m interrupting my Lake Placid travelogue to memorialize my dear dog George who crossed the Rainbow Bridge last week.)
George came into our lives unexpectedly, adopted with his sister …
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Kathy Werner
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4/12/24
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The emergency room practitioner needed to share just two words for the stress sitting at the base of my skull to start thrusting its elbows outward in both directions, pushing to take over control of …
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Jeanne Sager
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4/9/24
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Imagine, for a moment, that you’re standing in line somewhere.
Perhaps it’s the post office, or maybe it’s the grocery store. Or possibly you’re standing in the …
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Jeanne Sager
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4/2/24
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Growing up, most of us learn that the keys to doing well and advancing in a job are working hard and keeping your nose clean.
It’s true ... mostly.
Here’s what …
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Jeanne Sager
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3/26/24
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You’re going to be terrified of your kid doing the sorts of things at 18 (almost 19) that you once did quite easily at 17.
This is one of the (many) things I’ve learned during …
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Jeanne Sager
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3/19/24
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If you caught the front page of the Democrat last week, you already know the news for parents seeking childcare in our county is bleak.
The Hudson Valley as a whole has seen a 27 percent …
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Jeanne Sager
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3/12/24
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Have you ever driven by a house and wondered if it still looks the same inside as it did when you were 15? It can’t just be me.
There’s a fairly common movie plot point that …
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Jeanne Sager
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3/5/24
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I am a journalist who has had to write about suicide-related deaths.
I am also a person who deeply loves a person who died by suicide.
I tell you both of these things to make …
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Jeanne Sager
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2/27/24
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A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to travel with my daughter Liz, son-in-law Peter, and granddaughter Adeline to Universal Studios in Florida. This trip was a combination Christmas and birthday …
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Kathy Werner
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2/23/24
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Imagine my surprise when I went to my Amazon Prime Video channel this past week and discovered that they were now going to show ads while I watched shows unless I paid them an extra three dollars a …
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Kathy Werner
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2/16/24
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I nearly forgot to clear up one little mystery about our Christmas cruise from Vienna to Budapest that I teased in my first article about this trip.
While we were driving into Vienna from …
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Kathy Werner
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2/9/24
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I’m not sure when, exactly, I started counting down the days until my child would graduate from school.
Was it on December 14, 2012, as I held tight to my second grader during our …
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Jeanne Sager
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2/6/24
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My sister-in-law Susan and I enjoyed our first day on board our Avalon Christmas Market Danube River cruise this past November. We visited the Schonbrunn Palace and then after a most delicious dinner …
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Kathy Werner
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2/2/24
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Seated on the examination table at my doctor’s office, I was trying to do the math in my head.
If my daughter was 7 or 8 when my new physician’s assistant spent summers as my …
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Jeanne Sager
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1/16/24
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Our second full day in Vienna was action-packed. My sister-in-law Susan and I had hoofed it over to the fabulous Sisi Museum in the Hofburg Palace and then wandered back through the streets of …
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Kathy Werner
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1/12/24
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Four thousand steps.
That’s how many we’re supposed to take daily if we want to reduce our risk of dying, at least according to the largest study to date on the topic. …
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Jeanne Sager
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1/9/24
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There are plenty of groups you can split humanity into cleanly — the “toilet paper over” people vs. the “toilet paper under” people, the ones who would load the salsa …
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Jeanne Sager
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12/19/23
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At last, the day arrived for my sister-in-law Susan and I to begin our Christmas Market adventure in Europe. We met at Newark Airport, and all too soon it was time to board our flight on …
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Kathy Werner
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12/15/23
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The words were out of my mouth before I’d quite realized what I was about to say, but as they tripped over my tongue, a feeling rushed over me.
When I told this teenager who had …
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Jeanne Sager
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12/12/23
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I don’t decorate for the holidays.
The stockings hung in my living room have been there for a year now, left up last holiday season because no one ever took them down, and I simply …
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Jeanne Sager
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12/5/23
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