It’s December 6. You’re in a rut. You stuffed yourself with turkey two weeks ago and have been counting down the days all year until Christmas.  The spirit of the holidays is buzzing through the air, but you just can’t feel it in your bones. You’re feeling more like the Grinch than a jolly Christmas elf.  Time is running out.  Here are five simple sure-fire ways to get visions of sugarplums dancing in your head in no time.

1. Change your …

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Just a quick note to share this article from New Times Broward-Palm Beach about my stomach-testing experience on a pizza crawl with one of my favorite buddies, who also happens to be THE pizza celebrity of South Florida.
I took a mini pizza tour with John Linn, who wrote the article, and Craig Lapp (his alias) of WorstPizza.com.
I’d go into more detail but Linn summed it up better than I ever could:
Mallory’s Hawaiian was completely off-base, with huge chunks of pineapple …

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After a long and patient wait spent folding clothes at Banana Republic, ladies and gentlemen, I have landed a job. Actually, I’ve been at said job for about a month now and every week gets more and more exciting and challenging. You know all the stories and photos and videos that are posted on your favorite newspaper’s Web site? Well there isn’t some robot there posting all that content.  Computers aren’t doing it either. Producers who monitor, edit and select …

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I had a few proud motherly moments during my trip to New York City this weekend.  Not that I’m in any way as cool as Mary’s own mom, but that we’d grown so close that it felt like my own little chickadee was spreading her wings, and that made me happy.

Mary is one of my closest friends and my roommate in college.  We were randomly assigned to the same dorm room for our freshman fall semester at UF and I …

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It’s been a busy day in the Colliflower/Ortiz family today.  Aside from being a fairly political family and being anxious about the long-anticipated presidential election today, we were awoken around 6 a.m. this morning by my sister Courtney dropping off my nephew Owen so that her and her husband could head to the hospital.  Stella Noelle wanted in on all of the political excitement, and she showed herself to the world at 11:13 a.m. with a swift and easy delivery.  …

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