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Read my previous blog from December 4th where I talked about decluttering your decorations. The blog from December 7th focuses on mentally and emotionally preparing for the holidays.  The final blog in this series focuses on preparing spiritually and energetically for the holidays. How-Can-I-Clear-Physical-Holiday-Clutter? Spiritual How can you get rid of spiritual clutter this season? Some examples I have seen around the season include complaining about what you didn’t get, or spending time worrying about how much you will get. Maybe you compare your self to someone who you think has a prettier dress or all the men are chatting...

By Stephanie Golden It’s been decades since I was a copyeditor, but I haven’t given up my long, trusting relationship with the Chicago Manual of Style. So when I learned that Chicago, along with the Associated Press (AP) had accepted the use of ‘they’ as a singular pronoun last year, I was ready to go along. Not everyone was, though. As gender-neutral pronouns gained wider currency, accounts of a ‘war over pronouns’ struck a weirdly familiar note, and I realised: I’ve been here before – twice. In 1968, as a young copyeditor at the Encyclopaedia Britannica, I was trained on...

Whether shuffling from car to chairlift or slogging in the frozen woods, a good pair of boots is requisite footwear for surviving winter and fall. Here we outline the best winter boots for men. To give you a jumpstart on the season, we’ve kicked the rubber on a lot of soles to find the best winter boots for men. Because winter varies so much around the country — from slush and mud to deep powder — we included a variety of boots from puddle-stomping to hell freezing over. Below, we break the article into five sections: Winter Hiking Boots Best...

"We have a 9 a.m. meeting? Hold on — let me scour the internet to find content for the morning tweet." Sound familiar? Scrambling for social content is nothing new. We have meetings. We miss deadlines. Things come up. And it's really hard to get any meaningful amount of work done when you have the next social media update looming over your head every 30, 60, or 90 minutes. Social media content moves so fast that you might occasionally feel thrown for a loop, which is why a pre-scheduled social media content calendar should be your new best friend. To...

You probably sat through more than one parent–teacher conference, listening to Mrs. Got-It-In-For-Your-Kid tell you lies about your perfect student. You say to yourself things like, “It’s this negative environment,” or, “It’s Common Core,” or, “It’s the FDA classifying cafeteria pizza as a vegetable serving.” But, sometimes it’s just your obnoxious kid — and you need to fix it.John Miller is a father of 7 and creator of the Question Behind the Question (QBQ) method, which aims to get to the root of an issue. It also frees up all that time you’d spend blaming, complaining, and procrastinating and help you take accountability...