As you can imagine, after a half-century of Christmases a lot of them exhibit some degree of sameness. Traditions do that, being that you have a routine that is more-or-less followed year after year. Even so, amid the truckloads of presents and visits by Santa, I’ve managed to have a memory or two stick with me.
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My take on this week’s group blog topic: All I Want For Christmas. The rules are simple: Post your ideal Christmas list…money is no object.
Read more...Sometimes things just stick, you know? Every Christmas season since I first saw the performance of Cathy Ladman’s comedy vignette about the “Wisemens”, the absurdity of the routine pops up in my mind and makes me smile. But hey, isn’t joy what the season is about?
Read more...We’ve all been there. In fact many of us are there, now. We have things that we’d like to be gifted this holiday season, but we know we’re never going to get them because of circumstances. Still, that doesn’t stop the dream.
Read more...2008 has been a year of re-emergence. After a few years of enduring my father’s decline with an undignifying illness, my immediate family and I have had a year to discover what the world is like when it is what we make of it. So, my first serving of thanks goes to
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