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Inappropriate questions the best at any age
By ELIZABETH QUINN
Fri,02/14/20-11:35AM , 2,223 Reads
This week marks a year since I began writing this column. In that time, my family has acquired a cat whose existence traumatized my son and a dog whose existence traumatizes the cat. We’ve gone to the doctor to have an acorn and playdough taken out of one child’s ear and a different doctor to have a few stitches put in another kid’s face.
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Ad campaign selling sadness, don't buy it
By ELIZABETH QUINN
Fri,01/31/20-10:19AM , 2,170 Reads
Back in 2005, a now defunct travel company, Sky Travel, paid a psychologist to determine what is the most depressing day of the year in order to use that date in a marketing campaign to encourage people to book more beach vacations. The psychologist, Dr.
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A stitch in time and a couple in my kid
By ELIZABETH QUINN
Fri,01/17/20-9:39AM , 3,870 Reads
Our Christmas break involved lots of food, family, and three stitches in the face. All children present for ‘the incident’ agree that it was, in fact, an accident but somehow daughter #2 walked into a metal-tipped pole that daughter #3 was swinging at the fence.
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Resolving to be better at resolutions
By ELIZABETH QUINN
Thu,12/26/19-10:05AM , 1,518 Reads
I’ve always said I thought New Year’s resolutions were silly. If you want to make a change in your life, then just make a change—why wait for a certain date on the calendar to do so? But I was really just being lazy and afraid of change. And failure.
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