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Help Squad: Don’t just wrap gifts, wrap up your finances!
For many people, the last few weeks of the year are all about shopping for gifts, wrapping presents, decorating the Christmas tree, baking cookies, planning Christmas dinner, going to holiday parties...
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Food: The revolution has begun! Bringing back the holiday cheese ball
“It’s a tuna ball,” giggled my food aficionado friend, Penny, as she proudly revealed a pecan covered orb with a side of Ritz crackers.
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Top 10: A batch of the year’s best cookbooks
An avalanche of cookbooks covering a broad range of ethnicities and styles hit the shelves in 2013.
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Paul Sassone: Who needs expensive Christmas ornaments?
Bring on your new ornaments and your old. There’s room for all on a Christmas tree.
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Help Squad: Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. Then what do you do?
There’s nothing more beautiful than waking up in the morning to freshly fallen, powdery snow.
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Food: Where do chefs eat? Chicago pros name their favorite meal of 2013
Ever wonder what your favorite chef’s go-to spot is when they eat out? Well we did, too. It was a tough call for many of them, but here’s what some of the most beloved chefs narrowed down as the best...
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Healthbeat: Seek out treatment when a wound won’t heal
Wounds heal quickly for most people. A cut or scrape on an arm or a leg usually requires no more than a cleaning and a bandage.
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Blaser: Shining a light on the excess of the season
I swear I just don’t know how they do it. I have a hard enough time decorating the family Christmas tree.
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Mommy on a Shoestring: Day trips with international flair
It’s winter vacation and for many parents that means two weeks of uninterrupted time with our kids.
View ArticleHealthbeat: Are my kids sleeping enough?
How can you improve the quality of your child’s sleep? Check out these tips.
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Paul Sassone: In the old neighborhood, ghosts of Christmas past
It’s something I do every year about this time. I visit the neighborhood in which I grew up. I drive around, see how things have changed.
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Paul Sassone: Let’s learn lessons from Christmas
How do we integrate Christmas into a world perpetually at war and in which so many are hungry and poor?
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A look back at 2013: Did Help Squad help?
It’s been almost four months since we launched Help Squad. During that time, we read your letters, we made calls for you and we sat on hold.
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Spoiler alert: 2014 the year in review
At this time of year, many news organizations are reviewing the top stories of 2013, but I’m always looking forward, so here are my predictions for the top news events of 2014.
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Blaser: Shut up, I’m having a dialogue here
I’ve decided that when people say we need to have a national dialogue on this topic or that topic, they are not really interested. What they want is for everyone to finally agree with them. Those who...
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