Weekend Wanderer
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Weekend Wanderer: Are Your Holiday Traditions Fun? Awful? Strange? Join the Club!
Holiday traditions can be comforting, something to cherish and anticipate. Or they can be dreadful. Take Martha Stewart. She, like…
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Weekend Wanderer: A Holiday Travel List of a Different Sort
Under normal circumstances, I need very little prep to go to our cabin. Long ago, I stocked the cabin with…
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Weekend Wanderer: What Global Supply Chain Issues?
I took to heart those news articles about global supply chain issues affecting Christmas after I was lectured about the…
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Thanksgiving Moose, With All The Dressings
I have a Thanksgiving quandary. One of my kids hates the holiday. You would think a kid with ancestry dating…
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Weekend Wanderer: The Thanksgiving Activity List That Wasn’t
Last year, I gave you a list of Thanksgiving activities. That list was heavy on turkeys, light on Pilgrims. That’s…
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Weekend Wanderer: The Holiday Season Has Begun
It’s Halloween weekend. So the holiday season begins on Monday, right? Let’s pull out our festive throw pillows. Bake cookies.…
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Weekend Wanderer: It’s Halloween. Here’s a List of Horror Movies to Watch with Your Teen
My husband looked over my shoulder at exactly the wrong moment. When pandemic lockdowns began, I wanted to connect with…
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Weekend Wanderer: I’m Ready for Halloween…Well, Sort of
I bought the pumpkin. Its official name is “Medium Dark Woven Pumpkin by Threshold.” I bought it at Target because…
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Weekend Wanderer: Apple Picking ‘Wears’ Me Out
We have to talk about apple picking for a minute. We’re suburban parents. Apple picking is as much a requirement…
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Weekend Wanderer: 16 Million People Have Moved Since the Pandemic Began. I’m Fine Where I Am
I was reading this month’s Real Simple magazine – that thing is just a little pocket of joy in your…
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Weekend Wanderer: School Has Started. But Not Really
I was in preschool when my mom took a new job. Her schedule was erratic. An evening here. A weekend…
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Weekend Wanderer: Get the Hell-icopter Out of Here!
A few months ago, I wrote about my parents’ friendship with the man I now call my future stepdad. Neither…
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Weekend Wanderer: For the Love of a Gym
I’m in love. It’s a terrible kind of love, the kind you know will be lost – like watching Jack…
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Weekend Wanderer: How Not to Clean Your Bathroom
I still feel dirty. I cleaned the bathrooms yesterday. Stem to stern. Head to toe. Every nook and cranny. Pick…
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Weekend Wanderer: Are We Going Back to School?
I once had a boyfriend who borrowed $400. He broke up with me before it occurred to him I had…
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Weekend Wanderer: It’s Not Really a Vacation if There’s Magma — or a Pandemic
I am writing to you from vacation. Not our normal vacation, the kind I call “Rank Working Vacations.” Rank Working…
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Weekend Wanderer: Portable Toilets? Yes or No?
I attended an event this weekend. I slept in a tent, pitched in a field alongside scores of other campers.…
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Weekend Wanderer: Leaving Pets After a Pandemic Is Hard
The dreaded camping trip has arrived. This may be hard to believe, but I have a problem bigger than the…
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