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Find the collection here. This year, the holiday season is laced with danger. Read: The winter will be worse. The dangers of the holidays will keep some people from traveling home. This has been Home for the Holidays for her to accept. These are the powerful and entirely valid feelings that public-health guidance will run up against when Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, and Christmas arrive. Many people will, unlike Segura, act on those feelings, and it could be dangerous when they do so during the same roughly monthlong stretch of time. How many people will leave home is an important question. In a typical year, about 50 million Americans travel at least 50 miles from home for Thanksgiving, according to AAA. On one hand, a survey from Morning Consult in early September found that just under half of Americans are scrapping their usual plans for holiday gatherings. And Gary Leff, a blogger who follows Home for the Holidays airline industry closelytold me that based on airport foot traffic this yearhe expects the number of flyers during Thanksgiving and Christmas to be no more than half of what it was last year. But on the other hand, air travel usually accounts for just a small fraction— about 8 percent —of Thanksgiving trips overall. The overwhelming majority of Thanksgiving travel is by car, and drivers have hardly been deterred by the coronavirus this year, according to AAA. That is consistent with data from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics showing that around the Fourth of July and Labor Daythe number of trips covering to miles rose significantly compared Home for the Holidays last year, while the number of trips covering more than miles fell significantly. Whether or not those patterns hold for the upcoming holiday season, it seems safe to say that tens of millions of people will be spending extended periods of time indoors with friends and family who live outside their household. An additional danger is that the coronavirus could spread more easily in the colder monthsas other respiratory viruses do. This simultaneity could Home for the Holidays a strain on medical supply chains. Read: America is trapped in a pandemic spiral. If you do decide to go somewhere, Morse told me, there are a number of precautions you can take that, combined, could reduce the risks of getting or spreading the virus. But ramping up the caution or Home for the Holidays skipping the trip would be a good idea if you or your loved ones are particularly vulnerable to the disease. For some additional recommendations on making holiday plans, the economist Emily Oster recently published a useful guide. Adhering to guidelines like these will likely make holiday travel even more stressful than it is in non-pandemic years. Quarantining for half as long would be less effective, but still better than Home for the Holidays. Instead, she might drive down to Southern California with a friend who is also not going home for Christmas. We want to hear what you think about this article. Submit a letter to the editor or write to letters theatlantic. Skip to content. Sign in My Account Subscribe. The Atlantic Crossword. The Print Edition. Latest Issue Past Issues. Joe Pinsker is a staff Home for the Holidays at The Atlantic, where he covers families and relationships. Connect Twitter. Home For The Holidays on iTunes

Indulge in a glass or two of good cheer before the Home for the Holidays concert at the Benedum Center with an exclusive Home for the Holidays Tasting experience. Sample each wine with paired cheeses while a representative from Pittsburgh Winery provides tasting notes. Reception ticket includes:. Capacity is limited. Please have your ticket s available for admission to the Benedum Center. For questions, contact members trustarts. A Benedum Christmas — Home for the Holidays showcases the incredible level of talent born in our city, featuring vocalists, songwriters, and musicians performing unique renditions of holiday classics along with their own original hit songs. The Home for the Holidays showcase began at the Pittsburgh Winery as a way to bring people together for a good cause and an uplifting musical experience during the holiday season, at a Home for the Holidays when friends and musicians came back home to Pittsburgh for the holidays. The concert quickly became a gathering of some of the best singers and musicians our city has to offer, and a very hot ticket. This very special show is an amazing musical and emotional journey that is sure to become your favorite holiday tradition! Most-needed donations include diapers, laundry detergent, paper products, pasta, pasta sauce, peanut butter, dried or canned beans, pouched or canned tuna, rice, and instant mashed potatoes. Please remember, perishable food and glass items cannot be accepted. Scott Blasey is the lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter for Pittsburgh- based rock band The Clarks. The Home for the Holidays formed in at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and have since released nine studio albums over a year career. They have toured with Steely Dan and John Mayer, among others. When Scott is not on tour, he enjoys spending time with his wife Denise, and their daughters Sofia, Ava, and Gracelyn. The band Home for the Holidays the bar as to what music should Home for the Holidays, and how an album and concert should make each fan feel. Bingham appeared in the off-Broadway revival of Rent. You can follow Margot on Twitter or Instagram margotbingham. Polished and precise, yet buoyed with an airy grace, Joy Ike paints with a broad palette that defies easy categorization. But her percussive piano-playing and soaring vocals give homage to her African upbringing. Leaving her career as a publicist inJoy has spent the last 10 years playing thousands of shows across the country. A write-up on NPR's All Things Considered says "The depth of subjects she tackles in her poetic lyrics are perfectly complemented by a unique blend of neo-soul, with just the right dash of pop Written over a four-year period that included a relocation from Pittsburgh to the gritty, thrumming metropolis of Philadelphia, the record is joyously defiant, standing proud and wrapped in blasts of exotic color. It dares us to believe in ourselves, to knock down the walls of fear and doubt we build around ourselves. Bigger Than Your Box boldly explores what Ike often refers to as divine discontentment; the restless middle ground between what is and what ought to be. Jimbo Jackson is a member of the band Jimbo and the Soupbones, a band that doesn't even need to play a single note to make people happy — the name alone prompts a chuckle. Luckily, the good feelings don't stop at the name. Home for the Holidays about this man is big — his body, his voice, and, most importantly, his stage presence. With charisma to spare, Jimbo is the quintessential frontman. As Home for the Holidays band songwriter, Jimbo lets no lyrical rules govern. Tragic and often humorous stories and songs are written with specific intentions. Anthony Jardine is a singer-songwriter from Pittsburgh. He has written and performed since he was about 12 years old, and underlying music style that initially intrigued Anthony and has been foundational throughout his endeavors consists of blues, singer-songwriter, and soul. At a very young age, Stevie Ray Vaughan had always been an influence in his pursuit and as Anthony matured in his musical realm, he began studying and honing the songwriting aspect of music. Inhe started the band These Lions. He now plays in a project called Some Kind of Animal, but is always writing material for solo endeavors as well. From toHome for the Holidays was well known in the area by fellow Pittsburgh musicians and fans for their heavily melodic and textured songs. Besides NIJ, John has also leant his vocal stylings to recording projects for Pittsburgh-based progressive rock band, The Mandrake Project, a host of tv and radio commercials for Sheetz produced by sound design studio Big Science -- and more recently the atmospheric-pop music project, Three Easy Secrets. Lebanon with his wife Alicia, and their three amazing kids- Jack, James, and Maddie. Morgan Erina is a singer-songwriter Home for the Holidays a finger-picking, Indie Folk style and a raw, hauntingly ethereal voice. A prolific composer of Home for the Holidays songs, Morgan Erina is a New York City native who has lived in Pittsburgh for the past ten years. That album's single, "Wait" was used on the television shows Flashpoint and the Young and the Restless. She has toured the continental U. Kevin Garrett twists up soulful tradition with Home for the Holidays songwriter spirit, lush instrumentation, and post modern alternative adventurousness. Live and in the studio, the Pittsburgh-based collective is offering feel-good positivity, Golden Rule messaging, and sweat-soaked performances that nimbly ease through blues, vintage soul, and rock. The nonet is bonded by familial-like ties and a desire to foster spiritual uplift. Among its ranks are female backup Home for the Holidays, drums, bass, guitar, a horn section, and keyboards. Out front is Clinton, a lightning bolt charismatic front man with dynamically expressive pipes that effortlessly traverse bluesy pleading, and honeyed Home for the Holidays. The song album showcases raw-nerve soul musicianship pristinely recorded. It's an album by a band on a mission. We encourage you to seek additional information about the show to help determine whether it is appropriate for your child. Policies may vary per presenter. All children attending a performance must have a ticket. Tickets may not be purchased for children under the age of 3 years and such children will not be admitted. Children under 12 years must be accompanied by and seated Home for the Holidays to an adult. No refund will be given. Close Window Time Out You have exceeded the time limit and your seats have been released. Time left to complete order. Tue, Dec 17,pm. Scott Blasey. This modal contains biographic information about Scott Blasey. Lyndsey Smith. This modal contains biographic information about Lyndsey Smith. Billy Price. This modal contains biographic information about Billy Price. Margot Bingham. This modal contains biographic information about Margot Bingham. Joy Ike. This modal contains biographic information about Joy Ike. Jimbo Jackson. This modal contains Home for the Holidays information about Jimbo Jackson. Anthony Jardine. This modal contains biographic information about Anthony Jardine. John Schisler. This modal contains biographic information about John Schisler. Morgan Erina. This modal contains biographic information about Morgan Erina. Kevin Garrett. 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This Christmas season, join the girls of the mother-daughter book club for a variety of holiday-themed adventures! But unfortunately, nothing goes quite as planned for any of the girls. On a Christmas cruise with their families, Megan and Becca fight over the dashing son of the ship's captain. Cassidy and her family fly back to California to visit Cassidy's sister Courtney And a disastrous sledding accident causes both Emma and Jess to completely change their holiday Home for the Holidays. Between squabbles, injuries, and blizzards, everything seems to be going wrong. Will the girls be able to find their holiday spirit in time for Christmas? Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to Home for the Holidays. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. But unfortunately, nothing goes quite as planned for any of This Christmas season, join the girls of the mother-daughter book club for a variety of holiday-themed adventures! Get A Copy. Hardcoverpages. More Details Original Title. The Mother- Daughter Book Club 5. Other Editions 8. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Home for the Holidaysplease sign up. Does this book give away spoilers for the entire Betsy-Tacy series or just the first book? Emma I guess it depends Home for the Holidays how you view spoilers? Like they talk about the books not just the Home for the Holidays one so I guess you do get some things from the later bo …more I guess it depends on how you view spoilers? Like they talk about the books not just the first one so I guess you do get some things from the later books. At the same time however I don't think it is so much that you couldn't go and enjoy reading the books once you have Home for the Holidays the story if you hadn't before. See 1 question about Home for the Home for the Holidays. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Home for the Holidays. Home for the Holiday is the penultimate book in one of my favorite middle grade series, the Mother Daughter Book Club. We've been with these girls since they were eleven years old. Now they're fifteen turning sixteen. The book club goes on. The club even grew from four daughters to five. Each book in the series is set during a different year in the girls' lives. In a slight twist, Home for the Holidays took place during the first half Home for the Holiday is the penultimate book in one of my favorite middle grade series, the Mother Daughter Book Club. In a slight twist, Home for the Holidays took place during the first half of the girls' sophomore year in high school. The next book, I assume, will constitute the second half. So wonderful! These are some of my favorite books. I am so happy that Ms. The best part about Home for the Holidays is the addition of Becca's point of view. The story alternates from each girl's point of view. Until now, Becca was the only member of the club excluded. I assume this is because she was a Home for the Holidays addition to the club and also tends to be a popular mean girl. Now we have the opportunity to understand her better. Becca is sassy and somewhat mean, even in her internal chatter, but her good heart and general good intentions are more clear when seeing the world through her eyes. Becca is arguably the main character of this novel, since the main although not the only crisis plot point - that her father lost his job - involves her. As usual, the book's plot very loosely follows the trajectory of the book club's chosen novel, or novels in this case. Much like Betsy and her Crowd, there is great emphasis on friendship, having fun, and boys. This is where the problems start. Fighting, fighting, fighting. Frederick always does a good job of assigning flaws to otherwise likeable characters. The alternating points of view make the arguments even more Home for the Holidays and frustrating since the reader knows what each character is thinking but the characters suffer Home for the Holidays mistaken impressions or say things that we know they internally regret. While I wanted to knock the girls' heads together occasionally and get them to stop fighting, mostly the book is pure reading pleasure. I loved the incorporation of the Betsy Tacy series. I continue to admire Ms. Frederick for using 16 year old girls as the main characters in a middle grade series, making their lives realistic of the many teens who lead fairly tame, clean lives without alienating either older or younger readers. Home for the Holidays all 4 comments. Apr 11, Grace rated it really liked it. I am curled up with my Betsy-Tacy Afghan and a box of tissues. Not because the book is sad! Because I am so happy! And a dork, but what can you do??!! Summary: Loved it. Loved all the BT references. Technically, by adding the 5th girl, I found it harder to follow which girl was narrating each chapter. It would have been helpful to have the narrator's name on the top or bottom of each page, so an easy glance would remind you if Emma or Cassidy or whomever was talking. Also, addin BEST. Also, adding Becca's voice meant less of the other 4 girls' voices. So I felt less connected with their thoughts and feelings, than at the end of other books. And there were so many new characters in California and New Hampshire that I could have used a character road map. So it was slightly more confusing overall, but still a sweet, warm book worth millions of re-reads and perfect for gift Home for the Holidays Dec 03, Happy spread The Word rated it it was amazing. I love this book! I love the Holiday spirit, from the tears of joy, and the cry of laughter. This book is Home for the Holidays of those feel-good books that never gets old! Long live the Mother Daughter Book Club! Dec 28, Irene rated it liked it Recommends it for: Middle school girls. Shelves: middle-gradeculturally- diverse. There was just an awful lot about boys in this book, what with Jess and Emma having Home for the Holidays, Cassidy finally being interested in boys, and Becca and Megan fighting over a boy. Of course, this being the fifth book in the series, I'm already invested in the characters, so it wasn't hard to keep reading, even when I felt disappointed. I really liked that Becca finally got her own chapters in this book. She's a complex character, and I surprise myself when I say Home for the Holidays she's probably my second-favorite character after Cassidy, who matured a lot in this book. Chadwick continued to float around the edge of the friendship circle. I really disliked that she was still being portrayed as being petty and jealous.