Home for the Holidays

I'm Glad You're Gone: Why The Big-City Holiday Exodus Is Important

Gabe Zichermann | Posted 02.26.2012

Read More: Lgbt, Family, Christmas, Going Home for the Holidays, Home for the Holidays, Holidays at Home, Gay Voices News

The absence of most of my friends from the city this past weekend belies a minor miracle: we can go home. It wasn't long ago that gay men and lesbians fled their small towns to New York and San Francisco because they couldn't live there anymore.

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Come Home to Yourself for the Holidays

John-Manuel Andriote | Posted 02.20.2012

Read More: Home for the Holidays, Self-Acceptance, Accepting Oneself, The Inner Life, Gay Voices News

Home has taken on new meaning for me since I gave up my "big-city" life. It means not just a special place or people I love who also love me. Now it means embracing the life that has been given to me, and the man I was made to be.

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Getting Home For the Holidays, At Any Cost

Ann Brenoff | Posted 02.14.2012

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With the exception of those who have their 25-year-olds back living in their childhood bedrooms and their mothers moved into their guest rooms, getting everyone together for the holidays is difficult. Yet the notion of "going home for the holidays" is the gold standard of holiday happiness. Your holiday will not be complete if each and every living blood relative and then some aren't gathered under the same roof. It's what we are supposed to do at all costs. And I do mean at all costs.

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10 Tips to Surviving Holiday Gatherings with the Family

Janet Taylor, M.D. | Posted 02.08.2012

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Let's face it, there are times when holiday gatherings are not fun and joyous but remind you of how dysfunctional your family actually is. If you find yourself thinking... "Am I the only one who feels like there is something seriously wrong with these folks?" then try these tips.

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My Elderly Parents' Reluctant Technological Evolution

Mary K. Moore | Posted 01.08.2012

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They are the few, the proud, the tech hold-outs, happy to exist on a steady information diet of whatever is in the local newspaper and anything on television produced by Dick Wolf.

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Friday Talking Points -- Foreign Policy Issues Reappear

Chris Weigant | Posted 12.21.2011

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It has been a big week on the foreign policy front, with the death of Libya's dictator and President Obama's announcement today that all U.S. troops would be out of Iraq by the end of this year.

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The 10 Best Thanksgiving Movies Of All Time (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Grumpy Old Men, Video, Pieces of April, Thanksgiving, Slidepoll, House of Yes, Planes Trains and Automobiles, Home for the Holidays, Thanksgiving Movies, The Ice Storm, Holiday, Holiday News, Entertainment News

What will you rent this Thanksgiving when the tryptophan kicks in and no one wants to move from the sofa? Vote on your holiday favorites and let us kn...

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Stephen King Buys 150 Soldiers Trips Home For The Holidays

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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BANGOR, Maine — Author Stephen King and his wife are donating money so 150 soldiers from the Maine Army National Guard can come home for the hol...

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Home For Holidays: Too Expensive To Travel

AP | MICHAEL TARM | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO — There's still family, turkey and football, but one Thanksgiving tradition is taking a hit this year. Millions of Americans are spendin...

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