Sugar For The Holidays

Dear Sugars

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Boston, Wbur, Sugar, Cheryl Strayed, Society & Culture, Dear, Relationships, Advice, Steve Almond

4.6 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2016

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The holidays are supposed to be a time of joy and gratitude. But for many of us, they can be filled with anxiety and dread. This week, the Sugars revisit an episode in which they took on some of the big questions of the holiday season. They're joined by Heather Havrilesky, author of "How to Be a Person in the World" and of New York Magazine's advice column, "Ask Polly."

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0:00.0	Dear Sugar is supported by...
0:07.8	The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick.
0:12.2	Sugar is here, the both of us, speaking straight into your ears.
0:17.6	I'm Cheryl Strait.
0:19.2	I'm Steve Almond. This is Dear Sugar Radio.
0:22.6	Oh dear, so won't you please?
0:30.0	Yeah, some little sweet days with me.
0:37.0	I check my bell by every day.
0:45.0	Oh, and this sugar, using my way.
0:53.0	Hi Cheryl.
0:54.0	Hi Steve.
0:55.0	Very Christmas and Happy Hanukkah.
0:57.0	All of that stuff.
0:58.0	It's like a quanza now.
0:59.0	Quanza.
1:00.0	There is also the solstice, which I would like to note given the conversation we're about
1:06.5	to have, solstice, longest night of the year, darkest day.
1:12.8	So we think of holiday time as light and cheer.
1:16.7	There's a dark side to the holidays.
1:17.7	We're going to have some fun today and talk about the light sides and then some of the
1:21.9	hard things.
1:22.9	And some of the things we're going to talk about today are a little comic and nature
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