Susan O'Connor-Fraser filled in for Rosemary today. Rosemary anticipates returning tomorrow.

CNN's heros of the year includes a Chicago couple helping young people stay on the straight and narrow by growing and selling flowers, as well as a man with a corgi in a backpack who cheers up others.

Rachael told another of her serpentine-pathed stories. It began somewhere near cookie dough-induced food poisoning and meandered past her uncle dying on Christmas day, but found its way back.

John Laird's household is being terrorized by two young cats, holding his Christmas tree hostage. Of course he also spoke of the housing going up in the area and the controversy around that.