Category Archives: Essays

Year 28

  Year 28 It’s hard to believe that Darcy and I have been doing this for 27 years and we’re beginning our 28th year. We have gone from rags to riches and back again. We’ve done some soul-searching and we almost gave it all up once. But we found ways to keep things going and over time settled… Read More »

An Ancient Soul Restless and Yearning

  An Ancient Soul Restless and Yearning I’m old and certainly not very cool. I don’t know that I ever was. I don’t belong here in the age of selfies, but I’m not so sure I belonged in the age of transistor radios either. I don’t understand selfie sticks selfie lights or selfie filters. I don’t understand the… Read More »

Finding Christmas Magic

  Finding Christmas Magic It’s the day before Christmas Eve. The Christmas lights glowing in the rain do not look like Christmas lights to me. They look old and hazy and out-of-place and oddly out of time. I feel as though I have suddenly been thrust into the middle of March and people have forgotten to take down… Read More »

The Keepers of Christmas

    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, which makes winter’s dead cold… Read More »

The Christmas Tree: The Real Story

  The Christmas Tree: The Real 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 Christmas trees.… Read More »