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This is Day 4 of Santa's 12 tips for Celebrating Christmas. Today's tip -- Go on Vacation- Ok, so this idea may be far from traditional (see Day 3) but sometimes you might just need to use the holiday season as an opportunity to take a much needed vacation. Even if Christmas or Chanukah is about family, sometimes one needs a break from family. Going away provides just such an excuse....

This is post four of Be Brave. Lose the Beige’s 12 days of New Years Resolutions. I am newly returned from spending the most amazing Thanksgiving week in the mountains of Taos, New Mexico with my husband and our adult children. My kids think this may have been one of the best trips we’ve ever taken. We skied, hiked, dined, and browsed our way through galleries filled with turquoise and...

I'm on a 14 day cruise through the western Mediterranean with my husband, my son and his fiancé, and dear friends. I'm experiencing the mind suspension that so often accompanies vacations. I'm spending focused time with seven people I adore; we are immersed in luxury; and our ports of call are the sites of my studies as a Humanities major in college. Our excursions have been rigorous- hiking...

With the increase in the ability to diagnose and treat obstructive sleep apnea a new group of issues have come into play for many people. It is time to take the family vacation or on a business trip and you wonder do you have to bring this machine with you? If you do what do you need to know to make traveling with it easier? The first question of whether or not you need to bring it with...

I just got back from visiting Charleston, South Carolina for three days with my daughters, and I’d go back there in a heartbeat. And that was even before I looked up at a television monitor at the airport on the way home and noticed that today’s New York Times had a great travel article about the place. We were there for three days of escape together, and naturally worked some beach-going...

I found a bit of the Gulf Shore at the bottom of my bedroom closet today. Thanksgiving dinner for about a dozen at my house is looming, and so I've got a little less than two and a half weeks to straighten the place up and pull this off. This was the first day I'd dropped Lucky the pup off at "doggie day-care" for a few hours of uninterrupted housework. He's so enthusiastic about staying right...