George Bernard Shaw once said, “The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”

Human beings tend to go in and out of phases. We are, as someone once put it…“Phase-o-matic.”

If you read my column last February, you know that I was desperately hoping that Necco would show me some “TRUE LOVE” this year, by changing their Conversation Hearts back to the original flavors.

Common sense, that was the topic of an amusing squabble between visiting family members over the holidays.

The other morning I woke up thinking about the popular holiday song “The Twelve Days of Christmas.”