Christmas dinner and you are the host.  Here is what you are thinking as your guests arrive.  You must remember not to offer your best friend’s mother a glass of wine because she is a recovering alcoholic.  You must remember not to talk to...

Stores set out Halloween merchandise as soon as the back-to-school displays come down.  And immediately after that shelves are stocked with Christmas items.  In fact, in a store near my house, they put the Halloween and Christmas stuff up simultaneously, side by side.  We...