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Oh, I was adamant for many years that I would have only a real tree. However, I've had a fake one now for decades.

When we were newlyweds living in Killeen, TX, the real trees went on sale before Thanksgiving, but my husband refused to buy one. He has a thing about not celebrating Christmas before ...

Andy, I'm so sorry to learn that you, too, apparently suffered a traumatic childhood. I guess the worst thing that happened during my childhood was my father's death. It meant not only that I didn't get to know him in the way I would have wished, but also that my mother and I sank financially and ...

When my first child was a toddler, if I tried to spank him, he would hit me back. And I thought, Do I really want to raise a child who won't hit back when someone strikes him? And I decided I didn't want that. So I stopped trying to spank him. I decided I would do that only if I saw him doing ...

HH, I feel like apologizing to you if I said something that triggered all those terrible memories. But you say that in some way you feel unburdened by talking about it, so I hope it really did help. I cannot imagine living through that level of abuse, either as a child or a wife. My heart goes out ...

As usual, we did a little decluttering, but not enough. I don't know why that beast is so hard to tame. However, we did have a nice Thanksgiving break. Re the.decluttering, I'm hoping slow and steady wins the race.

Well, that's a fascinating analysis of your two girls. I think most people carry around some anger inside. The main issue is learning to channel it in ways that don't hurt innocent people. Your smashing up the car in the junkyard was a good release, and Phoebe's sports can be, too, as long as she ...

Gorgeous turkey!

It's lovely to share the holiday with extended family, but in some ways I'm happy that our holiday is nuclear. Everything is simpler for us. When my husband and I were first married, he was in the Army, and we were never free to travel at the holidays. The higher ranking officers ...

Andy, I love seeing your decorations every year, for every season!

Happy Thanksgiving to you both, and to anyone else reading here! My husband has the whole week off from school, which is pleasant for all of us. In addition to the feasting, he and I want to continue decluttering and organizing the ...

I have a theory that "love at first sight" is more common for men than for women. I can't say it never happens for women, but I think most women are just more cautious than that, because they risk more. I mean, men risk their hearts, which isn't nothing. But women potentially risk their lives and ...

My husband always says that he was aware of me at the auditions that Thursday, and that, when I showed up in the choir at the first rehearsal and was picking up my music, he turned to his friend in the tenor section and said, "That's the woman I'm going to marry." I didn't know this until some time ...

Anyway, I went to this concert choir audition on a Thursday afternoon, and it was thronged. It was primarily an undergrad organization, but nothing prevented grad students from auditioning, and a smattering did. I've never felt more out of place or uncomfortable in my life. Everyone else seemed to ...

I had a dr's apptmt, so I'm just now getting back to my story.

I've sung all my life. My father had me singing for company when I was three. I'd done church choirs and school choirs and community choruses and sung solos at assemblies throughout my growing up years, so I thought for a hot minute ...

What a wonderful story! Thanks for sharing those memories with us. Even without seeing her face, I can tell your wife is a beautiful woman. And that hair! Mine is long, too, always has been, but it's never been as luxuriant and thick as hers is. What a stunner! No wonder you were agog.

Canoodle us ...

Oh, I think my husband is well aware that we can all be tracked through phones, iPads, etc. I suspect he just doesn't want to make it even easier than it already is. Our son mislaid his phone the other day and had a dickens of a time finding it because he'd turned it off. He said he was worried ...

Lol! I would have watched it if my TV could bring in anything other than a smattering of religious channels. Before the HD revolution, our tv reception was excellent. But it's been diminishing steadily since that change away from analog. We'll never get anything again unless we re-up to the internet ...