Black Monday. Holiday marketing has gone off the deep end. Black Friday on Thursday is not enough. It’s been extended to Monday and beyond. Soon, we will be living in a perpetual Black Friday world. And like Bill Murray in Ground Hog Day, we will be forever...
Every year I say: I’m not going to eat apple pie, stuffing, mashed potatoes, an appalling assortment of homemade cookies, holiday candy, and cinnamon pumpkin bread until it’s coming out of my ears and I can’t sit up straight in a chair. But I do it....
So, girls, I am shopping—of course I’m shopping. It’s October, and I went to the local grocery/clothing/everything store to stock up on cold-weather essentials such as hot chocolate with those tiny little marshmallows. Roaming past the Halloween...
Okay, so I went to Walmart on Thanksgiving night because: 1. There was nothing else open and I needed coffee, without which getting up in the morning is not possible, and I wasn’t keen on spending the rest of my days in bed. 2. I thought, No one will be there. They’ll...
