My Christmas Thoughts It seems like yesterday, we were celebrating Christmas and welcoming another new year. Now the ghost of Christmas past has taken last Christmas and we have all committed it to memory. Here it is Christmastime again and the new year is now the old year and we’re all getting ready to flip a… Read More »
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 and only to be swallowed up by the long winter darkness. It’s always windy this time of year, and that makes the dead cold… Read More »
The History of the Christmas Tree – The Real Story After doing some research, it’s obvious to me that, to this point, no one really 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… Read More »
A Magical Thanksgiving When I think of Thanksgiving, I think of myself as a young boy, watching the Thanksgiving parade on television; mom busy in the kitchen preparing our Thanksgiving dinner, and the feeling of love all around. I remember a gray, cold, and cloudy day; the steamy windows that cooking made and snowflakes in the… Read More »
Caring for a Dead Turkey 2021 Dead turkeys make lousy pets. It’s just a week before Thanksgiving. And here in the good, old, US of A, for many people that means it’s turkey time. In order to keep you safe this Thanksgiving we wanted to publish this highly useful, eclectic guide, so you’d have all these… Read More »
Lighthouse In the late afternoon, on so many summer days, the old man would sit with me in still silence. Clouds scattered and majestically moving crossed the sky as I sat on the rocks, fishing pole in hand, waiting and waiting for a fish to bite. The smell of the old man’s pipe was pleasant. The… Read More »