I really love Christmas, but I despise “New Year’s Eve” and everything that it brings with it. You may call me the “Scrooge” of New Year’s and if that’s your mind, then so be it. I really don’t care what you think. New Year’s Eve? Bah! Humbug! What’s New Year’s Eve but yet another excuse for getting drunk,… Read More »
“On a quiet evening watching winter snowflakes fall – The candle in the window casting shadows on the wall. The village streets are empty on this snowy Christmas Eve; Oh to be a child again and see the innocence in all.” The house is dark and quiet. I sit by the window watching the snowflakes drift down from… Read More »
“So faith, hope, love remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love.” 1 Corinthians Chapter 13 Winter has arrived ahead of schedule this year. Tonight, I look out my window and see softly falling flakes of snow drifting in the dim light of the old lamp post in my front yard. How many times I’ve looked… Read More »
The Old Oak and the Christmas Tree Place – Revisited Has it really been twelve years since I wrote the original “The Old Oak and the Christmas Tree Place…In Search of the Perfect Christmas Tree”? It doesn’t seem possible; life is flying by so much more quickly than ever. I was twelve years younger then, and so was… Read More »
The Magic Of Christmas The Christmas lights glowing in the rain do not look much like Christmas lights to me. They look old and hazy, dull and out-of-place — oddly out of time. I feel as though I have suddenly been thrust into the middle of March and people have forgotten to take the Christmas decorations down. It… Read More »
And though today I walk away from things familiar too, I’ll make new footprints in the snow, where once the flowers grew; Guided by a dream unseen; a dream that will not die, My footprints winding through the snow; beneath a twilight sky. Each day I set aside an hour of my day to take a walk.… Read More »