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Do you know whose land you're living on?
It's a question that may seem like a trick. If you own your home, it's yours, right? if you rent, it's your landlord's?
Not exactly. Long …
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Jeanne Sager
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2/28/23
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We didn't have a list at the beginning, but we didn't need it. What we had to teach came almost instinctively.
How to grasp food between two tiny fingers.
How to hold a spoon. …
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Jeanne Sager
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2/21/23
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In the years since I became a homeowner, I've found a long list of things that set you apart from the person you thought you'd be in high school.
Did a teenage me dream of walking around …
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Jeanne Sager
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2/14/23
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Like most Januarys, this has been a month filled with snow days for school kids from around Sullivan County, days when they wake to the news that they can skip reading, writing and arithmetic for a …
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Jeanne Sager
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1/31/23
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If you’re ever having a bad day and feeling a little less than your very best, I told friends recently, remember this story.
I had asked the mechanic to look into why my remote car …
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Jeanne Sager
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1/24/23
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If you wanted to walk the entirety of Sullivan County, did you know you'd be covering almost 1,000 square miles? Or 997 to be exact?
It's a number that may be hard to wrap your head around, so …
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Jeanne Sager
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1/17/23
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The questions came from a young couple, freshly married and considering a move to Sullivan County.
Is it a good place to raise kids? What’s access to medical care like?
There …
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Jeanne Sager
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1/10/23
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There's a phenomenon that comes naturally with the passage of time. We forget.
We forget people. We forget places. We forget names and dates and moments and sounds.
But there's a funny …
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Jeanne Sager
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12/27/22
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I’ve seen the sign a few times in recent weeks as I've traveled throughout the county, or some version of it anyway. “I say Merry Christmas, not happy holidays,” it says.
Once …
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We were watching a documentary on, of all things, Barney the Dinosaur, when I spotted something familiar.
“Wait a second. Rewind that?” I asked my husband.
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12/13/22
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I would like to say the timing couldn't be worse. Three weeks before Christmas. Seven months before the first college tuition payment is due for our teenager. Just six years after we carried a bundle …
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Jeanne Sager
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12/6/22
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Hallmark Christmas movies. They're silly and syrupy and absolutely everywhere right now.
They're predictable with the guarantee that there will certainly be a big city girl who heads back …
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Jeanne Sager
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11/29/22
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