Help! It’s the Holidays!! When you don’t feel like drinking, or want to drink less, here’s some ideas One of my favorite things to do around this time before the holiday season is in full swing is to look around for articles on non-alcoholic beverages, otherwise known as NA drinks. When I stopped drinking alcohol decades ago, the only choice out there was a really awful NA beer, O’Douls. Ugh.  I don’t think I even finished my first one, it was so bad. So, I stopped looking fo

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