My Friend At first, I pretended. I tricked myself into thinking it didn’t matter much that you were no longer my friend. Sometimes I make life too complicated: We were good friends and then we weren’t – it’s as simple as that. It’s kind of like being told you have a terminal illness – at first,… Read More »
We Are Fighters Here we all are at the end of another trying year. We all fought hard again this year to keep going through the hardships and difficulties the year brought us. But that’s ok. We are fighters – and so are you. We’re fighters fighting for you and fighting to keep our small business… Read More »
In the Spirit of Christmas “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… Read More »
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 »