There may be no expression of the Christmas spirit than this one carol: Joy to the world! The Lord is come. Let earth receive her king. Let every heart Prepare him room; And heaven and nature sing, And heaven and nature sing, And heaven, and heaven and nature sing Joy to the world! The savior [...]
Holiday Jeer
Growing up in Florida, we never had white Christmases, so we had to find or make our beauty elsewhere. Our neighborhood found it in the luminaria, a tradition from the Southwest that founds its warm to other warm climates. Every Christmas Eve, we would get a bucketful of sand, a stack of paper bags, and [...]
It’s a sign of the times when even your Christmas tree ornaments are at war.
There are few moments in a man’s life when the veil separating the absolutely mundane from total bone-shaking terror parts and allows the two to mix. Today I had just such a moment, putting Christmas lights on our house for the first time. Generations of received wisdom dictate that properly placed lights run along the [...]
I’m thankful for after-dinner naps.
Dineen found that an Amazon.com search for “christmas stocking” includes some results which might surprise Mrs. Claus.
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