Word: jumbo
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...Saturday with poor results, garnering a total of zero successful shots out of five. The quarrel between yours truly and a certain Somerville-based academic institution inched toward a resolution this weekend after Grandpa finally found his chair. Apparently someone had locked it in the bathroom and all Jumbo needed...
That's right, five pounds of whoopie pie. The creators of the dessert, Isamax Snacks, make a product called the Jumbo Wicked Whoopie. It's supposed to feed up to 12 people, perfect for a decent Super Bowl Party, and apparently Isamax Snacks' Wicked Whoopies have garnered praise from the Food Network, Good Morning America, and Rachel...
...avoided it for as long as humanly possible. That's because it involves deliberately, systematically exposing yourself to the thing you fear. It's part of cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT. It's a very practical kind of therapy - it has no truck with mystical Freudian mumbo jumbo. CBT views your symptoms not as clues to the secrets locked in your tormented unconscious but as a set of learned behaviors and bad habits that you can be trained to give up. As far as CBT is concerned, my phobia was just a piece of bad neural wiring that needed troubleshooting...