A Rockin’ New Year’s Eve First, before I get started, let me make it clear that I, for one, don’t like the term “Rockin’”. What does it really mean? A rocking horse is “rockin’” but only if someone is sitting on it. My recliner rocks, but only if I’m a wake and making it rock. I… Read More »
Happy New Year from Darcy and TC Every year at this time, we reflect upon the year that is drawing to a close and look ahead to the new year to come. It’s a time of reflection and a time of hope. It’s a time of renewal as well as change. It’s a beginning and an… Read More »
We Are The Keepers of Christmas It’s a wintry mix kind of day. The sky is obscured with an unending blanket of gray that will never brighten and yield to an increasingly earlier sunset only to be swallowed up by the long winter darkness. It’s always windy this time of year, and that makes the dead… Read More »
The Christmas Tree: The Real True Story After doing some research, it’s obvious to me that, to this point, no one knew how this whole Christmas tree thing got started. It’s not like someone picked up a pen and kept notes. But I did some digging, and I can now tell you the real story of… Read More »
36 Minutes… and Counting The older I get the more skeptical I get. I can’t help it. Once you’ve seen it all before, you’ve seen it all before and it gets harder for hooligans to pull the wool over your eyes. If you’re younger than sixty, you won’t get this, but, trust me you will. There… Read More »
A Few Weeks Before Christmas Last night, late, when the house was quiet and the only sound was the late-autumn wind whipping the skeletons of the forgotten lifeless trees, I watched the flame of a single candle flicker and thought about what Christmas meant to me. I looked out the window and saw a winter scene painted… Read More »