Christmas Plants Are Poisonous: Coincidence?

I gave up The Holidays years ago. You can, too.

They’re for the birds

My first sister-in-law, my brother’s ex-wife, died the other day after an excruciatingly long siege of cancer. So I spent some time on the phone with each of her daughters to see how they were holding up. In chatting with the niece who is most like me (brash, opinionated, the one shouting, “The emperor is naked!” from the front row), she…