“Learn to relax Charlie Brown.”  In the classic Charles Schulz comic, this was invariably the advice Lucy gave her friend Charlie when he sat in front of her “psychiatry” booth. It is also what my mother reminded me to do throughout my childhood. For sure I was wound pretty darn tight.  Life was urgent to […]

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I just returned from a New Jersey family wedding, capping off three weeks of wedding celebrations, my own and my cousin’s.  Hers was an Italian feast and dessert lover’s dream.  Imagine a “cocktail hour” at the end of the evening filled with every imaginable sugary treat. It was Willie Wonka’s factory on performance enhancing drugs. Delish! […]

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