Article: Lisa Kogan tells all: do vacations exhaust you? Do you prefer the travel posters to the trip? Do you know how to say "easy on the heavy cream" in German? Our ever so lightly Xanaxed columnist achieves a winged victory ... of sorts.(connections)

HERE IS A BRIEF LIST OF THE PEOPLE who have served me well: Catherine de Medici, who at some point around 1533 came down heavily in favor of the fork, giving it some degree of social acceptance (without Cate, I'd be forced to treat spaghetti as finger food); Dr. Earle Haas, who, bless his heart, on November 19, 1931, filed the first patent for a tampon (I think of him fondly every time I start to bloat, break out, or cramp); and one Mr. Erik Oley, who, on July 23 of this very year, turned to me and uttered a sentence that would forever change my life: "Lisa," he said, "when we travel with the kids, we use a rechargeable battery that keeps the portable DVD player running an ...

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