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By Michael Rielly
If You Have the Post Christmas Blues You’re Doing Christmas Wrong
MyMerryChristmas.com
B. Francis Morlan
December 27, 2018
EXCERPT
The post-Christmas blues are a very real thing. Once the date of December 25th has passed the specter of December 26th is an ominous marker to many. It sits there on the calendar like the Ghost of Christmas Yet-to-Come. Silent and foreboding, the very image of the hooded Angel of Death it seems to be. And why not?
Just about anywhere you look Americans are tossing trees to the curb, ripping down lights from rooftops and radio stations are flipping back to everyday music. What took months to build gets deconstructed in a matter of a couple of days.
It does not have to be like this.
You do not have to take down your tree.
You do not have to kill your lights.
You do not have to turn off your music.
You can, instead, stand up to the madness around you and let Christmas linger a little longer.
The secret to avoiding the post-Christmas blues is deconstructing it much the way you built it in the first place.
For me, Christmas often gets started in July. It is easy then, in the heat of summer, to imagine the frosty glow of our Christmas windows, the frothy foam of our cocoa, and the homey warmth of the decorated tree. Of course, we can’t GET those things in July…but it’s fun to think of them as we sit in a darkened room and watch Christmas movies when it is blazing outside.
This is classic, hardcore denial. And it is good for you.
SOURCE: https://mymerrychristmas.com/christmas-blues/
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By Drosselmeyer
Disneyland Float Collapse Launches Santa off Sled During Parade
Date: 12/16/18
Author: Alexandra Deabler, Fox News
According to WDWNT, the sleigh broke during the parade and launched Mr. Claus right out of his seat. He was left dangling by his safety harness while he waited for crew members to help him down.
Link to Article: https://www.foxnews.com/travel/disneyland-float-collapse-launches-santa-off-sled-during-parade
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By Michael Rielly
Dorcas Reilly, Creator of Green Bean Casserole, Dies at 92
Friends and family are mourning the creator of an iconic recipe and a Thanksgiving staple.
NBC Connecticut
By David Chang
October 23, 2018
EXCERPT:
Friends and family are mourning the creator of an iconic recipe and a Thanksgiving staple.
Dorcas Reilly, the inventor of Campbell’s green bean casserole, died on Oct. 15. She was 92.
“Dorcas was an incredible woman, whose legacy will live on in more than 20 million American households this Thanksgiving,” the Campbell Soup Company wrote on its website.
Reilly, of Haddonfield, New Jersey, gained fame while working for Campbell’s Home Economics department in 1955. She combined green beans and Campbell’s Cream of Mushroom Soup to create what was originally called “Green Bean Bake.” The recipe would later be known as green bean casserole, referred to by Campbell as “the mother of all comfort foods.”
Dorcas left Campbell's in 1961 and returned in 1981 to serve as manager of the Campbell’s Kitchen. She then retired in 1988. Campbell's donated Dorcas’ original recipe for green bean casserole to the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2002.
A spokesperson described Dorcas as a person who was admired for her “humble and unassuming nature.”
“Dorcas would often share that the first time she made her famous recipe, it did not receive the highest rating in Campbell’s internal testing," the spokesperson wrote. "Yet, it was her persistence and creativity that led to an enduring recipe that will live on for decades to come.”
SOURCE: https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/national-international/Dorcas-Reilly-Campbell-Green-Bean-Casserole-Death-498372271.html
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