Beware if you're the type to hear or read about a condition and then feel similar symptoms. From now until the end of the year, you will be bombarded with ways to avoid this two-word enemy. Oddly, the craziness is sparked by our desire to uphold precious traditions. Now, some of these rituals may be so ancient that none of our family or friends remembers how they started, and still nobody will dare end them. However, once we begin a new calendar year we're glad we made a fruitcake that will sit in the freezer until next December.
Families are a great source of tradition, but so are offices.
Tell us about the holiday or year-end traditions in your department at UMKC for the Dec. 19 issue of Inside. Talking about it, they say, will ease the stress.