Travel Tips to Ease Common Holiday Stress

Though the holiday season is welcomed by many as a chance to reconnect with family and friends, in a society wherein families are more geographically diverse than ever before, the amount of travel necessary for such reunions has taken some of the joy away from the holiday season. Long lines at airports, busy highways and mass transit delays are common during the holiday season, when it seems everyone has somewhere to go, and every way to get there is delayed.
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Easy Ways to Keep a Home Safe While Away for the Holidays

Safety and security is an important concern for many homeowners. Around the holidays, it can be easy to overlook those concerns due to the increasingly busy schedule many people have between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day.

Unfortunately, putting home security on the backburner during the holiday season can prove to be a grievous error. Because extended vacations to visit family and friends are common during the holiday season, criminals often target this time of year thanks to empty homes they know will not be the hub of activity they usually are.
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Some pig for pigskin's big day

While turkey might rule the day on Thanksgiving, the Thanksgiving weekend is a big one for football fans. Families often gather in the living room to watch pro football on Thanksgiving Day, and the pigskin theme continues for the rest of the weekend to watch college football. Those planning a weekend-long party this holiday season could leave the leftovers in the fridge and cook for a crowd with the following recipe for "The Big Kahuna" from Andrew Schloss and David Joachim's "Mastering the Grill" (Chronicle Books).
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