I ran out of propane this weekend because I suck at being a grownup.

And it got me thinking...

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Andy Close wants kids someday.

Brian Hagberg already has some. 

All three of us were reporters at the same newspaper once.

Now Andy and Brian are co-owners of Your Daily Local, a news outlet of their own. 

Read columns and news stories written by Brian, Andy, and me at yourdailylocal.com

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I put my own ring on it. Here's why. 

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I had a wonderful column completed in a reasonable amount of time.

Then, the toilet got clogged. 

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A collaboration with Your Daily Local, check out my first audio column all about how we came to be the family who adopted an elf on the shelf. 

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Gina and I talk Christmas, and do some armchair analysis of traditions like Elf on the Shelf and the concept of Santa Claus. Is Christmas just a celebration of Big Brother and toxic guilt tripping? We think not. Find out why. 

Also, our mutual Twitter friend Ashley's dad is the most legit Santa Claus I've ever seen in my life. One of my favorite things is to include listeners in our lunacy, and Ashley was so generous to share this shot of her dad that I've used as episode artwork this week. 

Have a beautiful, peaceful Christmas filled with love, sanity, gratitude, and reflection. 

We've a new year on our doorstep and, honestly, it can not be that hard to improve upon the year we've already trudged through if we just keep our chins as up as we can. And trust me, it is not like me to offer that advice, but for about the past month I have been undergoing a somewhat jarring change of personality. Could be me maturing. Could be the onset of a stroke, for all I know. But all I do know is that I have felt this amniotic weighted blanket of general peace settling over me and I can't explain why or how, but I also don't want it to go away. 

Maybe I'm actually freezing to death. They say freezing to death comes with the same subjective experience, more or less. 

Either way, let's kick this holiday's ass and then square up to 2021 like the badass muthas we are.  

K? 

K. 

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Bill and Mary McFarland were married 20 years before they had their son, Ian. Does a 20 year marriage under a couple's belt make the experience of parenting a child easier or harder? Bill and Mary have strong opinions. 

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Gina and I discuss Alice in Wonderland, and she recounts the tale of her lunchmeat Thanksgiving that will go down in infamy. 

Here’s the video I was referencing. 

https://youtu.be/XFFeAMITfSs

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Destiny and I talk being kind to one another after her formal episode, Episode 4, on Working Moms. 

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Gina and I discuss the movies Peter Pan and The Sword and the Stone. 

Fair warning, I was tired, overworked, and all over the place. Which makes this funny but ultimately light on substantive conversation from my end. 

It's fine.

It's all gonna be fine. 

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