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Column By Melissa Martin America, a nation of time-saving fanatics. American, a nation of time-wasting freaks. In the days of old, consumers visited the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker. …
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Column By Melissa Martin Yes, Pete the Cat is lying on his video about a groovy new year. “While Pete tries to figure out what a New Year’s resolution is, he forgets …
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Column By Melissa Martin There’s a certain gift that most of us want. We desperately seek it. We long for it. We ask for it every Christmas and even throughout …
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Column By Melissa Martin Journalists are jailed around the globe. How can it be? First Amendment aggressions are occurring in the United States. How can it be? Devious despots misusing …
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Photo Courtesy UTBA Column By Melissa Martin Parents use Elf on the Shelf as a surveillance device to ensure younger children are behaving during the holidays. But what about a …
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H.R.H. The Prince of Wales with children from Damers First School in Poundbury, England. (c) 2017. The Duchy of Cornwall. Photo: Finnbarr Webster. Used with permission. Column By Natalie Pace …
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Image Courtesy NBC Universal: Rankin/Bass’ animated “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” premiered on NBC in 1964 and is the longest-running Christmas special. The initial story behind Rudolph was written by Bob …
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Column By Melissa Martin I don’t like the mischievous elf on or off the shelf. There, I said it. Some parents may wag their tongues and refer to me as …
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Column By Melissa Martin After I bought a bag of Nestle’s Dove milk chocolate candies, intrigue set in as I read the phrases on shiny wrappers. The neurons in my …
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Column By Melissa Martin Hurried holiday humans rev up everyone in the near vicinity and beyond. How can you spot the marathon shopping mothers? They’re the ones with the lazed …
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