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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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When the world seems really crazy these days, I like to remember that it has always been this upsetting. The difference is that we didn’t have to hear about it twenty-four hours a day.
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Kathy Werner
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12/1/23
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