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It’s that time of year when the store shelves are filled with all things spooky — ghosts, zombies, goblins, witches ... and black cats.
If you’re thinking one of these things …
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Jeanne Sager
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10/5/21
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Over the years, I’ve shot hundreds of weddings. First weddings. Second weddings. I even shot a fourth wedding once. And every single time, I marvel at the willingness of two people to come …
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Jeanne Sager
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9/28/21
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Tell me if this sounds familiar.
The first time you had to fill out a W2 or a W9, you just stared at the blank page before you like you’d been given a code without the cypher.
Don’t …
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Jeanne Sager
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9/21/21
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I expected to be sad on the first day of school. This is how it’s always been as summer has faded into fall and late night movies have given way to early morning wake-ups.
What I …
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Jeanne Sager
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9/14/21
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Two thousand three hundred forty. That’s how many days a kid, the average kid, spends in a k-12 school building.
Granted, there aren’t nearly as many of these buildings now as there …
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Jeanne Sager
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9/7/21
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Ever done research before a vacation and stumbled on a slew of tips on how to enjoy your intended destination like a local?
How to eat like a local. How to shop like a local. How to relax like a …
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Jeanne Sager
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8/31/21
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It's been a few years since the meet the teacher night when I wandered through the Sullivan West High School dripping in sweat and fanning myself with the school-supplied map to the classrooms, …
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Jeanne Sager
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8/24/21
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I had it all planned out.
The Saturday morning would be quiet — my daughter at work, my husband relaxing from a long week — and I could finally sit down to plow through photo edits …
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Jeanne Sager
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8/17/21
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I butchered my husband’s beard.
This was never the plan. The plan was just a bit of control for the mass of hair sprouting from cheeks and chin.
These months of living 6 feet apart have …
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Jeanne Sager
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8/10/21
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There’s a question that’s been popping up on Facebook in recent days: Do you know someone who has had COVID?
The short answer is yes.
The longer answer is that — like all too …
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Jeanne Sager
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8/3/21
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An eagle! An eagle!
Now imagine someone yelling it but in a tone that’s both mocking and amused.
Welcome to live with a Sullivan County teenager.
I should have expected this. I was one …
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Jeanne Sager
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7/27/21
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Growing up just feet from the river, there were always rules.
You respected the river’s power. This was the unspoken rule, and yet it was the biggest one too — the one that stuck hard …
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Jeanne Sager
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7/20/21
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