The Light Fantastic

Raise your hand if you look forward to putting away Christmas decorations. Raise your hand if your decorations fight you while going down. I didn’t think so. You know that disgusting commercial where food fights the person with the sensitive stomach, slapping his/her face with vengeance? That commercial plays in my mind as I try [...]

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Five Days of Christmas Prayers

I urge you to read the Five Days of Christmas Prayers from a favorite blogger. If these don’t capture your feelings, you are out of the mainstream.  Prayer #4 brings you down to earth, while #5 puts it all in prospective. (I realize there are two #4′s. I am referring to the one on Dec. [...]

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Night of the Living Zombie Lights

I brought my wreath with the solar lights  into the garage yesterday for storage. The minute the door closed and it got dark this is what happened. That wreath stayed lit from about noon yesterday to noon today. It looked freaky and alive in there. All I can say is, if you don’t want to fool [...]

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Playing in the Salvation Army Band

Don’t we all have an unrealistic, totally off-the-wall dream? Tell me I’m not the only one. Mine has been since early childhood to slip a cape over my shoulder, tie a bonnet under my chin, and play in a Salvation Army street corner band. Guys and Dolls when it came along decades ago did nothing [...]

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Hark!

The herald angels sing Glory to the new born king…… M E R R Y  C H R I S T M A S

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Sugared Fruit

A picture is worth a thousand words. That’s a good thing because I don’t have time during this season to write a thousand words. Pictures might have to do for a few days. I’ll promise to make them festive, with the help of our beautiful tree.

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The Stars at Night—-

  Men always say not to fret, that everything always manages to get done somehow. Meet “Somehow,” the women of the world. Somehow has had a lot of help this year from her children and husband. Stephen took me to buy the tree–a perfect tree. Days later he appeared at the door just as I [...]

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Ohhhhhh Tanenbaum

I am not ready to throw the Christmas tree to the curb, but we’ll have no choice in a few days. We bought our first live tree in many years — just for one year —  I thought. Jerry has been disappointed in our slim, artificial tree since the first year. It looked beautiful, took [...]

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Box Nazis

A week from today Christmas 2007 will be over. You’ll be in the mood to tidy up, get rid of crushed wrapping and bows, begin to return your storage area to normal. Not so fast! Now you deal with the Box Nazi. The box your computer came in, your mixer, your what-ever with moving parts [...]

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Mary Had a Little Jesus

“We’re going to see Mary Had a Little Lamb,” three-year old Hannah squealed again. “No, Hannah,” I corrected her more times than I care to remember, “We’re going to see Mary and Baby Jesus.” Her look humored me. I reminded her of the manger scene at Ahmaw’s house and the first Christmas story. That look [...]

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