The Old Oak and the Christmas Tree Place 2016 Preface This story started twenty-one years ago when my youngest son was 14. I wrote this essay when he was a freshman in college and living away from home for the first time. He’s 35 now and has a family of his own. Though the world has changed so much since… Read More »
Why Do We Have Christmas Trees? 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 the real story of Christmas trees.… Read More »
Thoughts On Christmas All the children’s eyes are smiling, Christmas Eve is finally here! Outside my window snow is falling, This brightest evening of the year. Children dream of Christmas morning; Santa Claus is on the way … And I, a father, watch it snowing, And drift back to another day When I, a child, watched in wonder… Read More »
Christmas Reflections It seems like yesterday when we were celebrating Christmas and welcoming a new year. Now the ghost of Christmas past has taken last Christmas and we have all committed it to memory. Some of us have happy memories and some of us have sad memories; the most unfortunate among us have no memories of last Christmas… Read More »
The Magic Of Christmas The Christmas lights glowing in the rain do not look like Christmas lights to me. They look old and hazy 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 their Christmas decorations down. It doesn’t seem much… Read More »
Three Weeks Until Christmas Last night, late, when the house was quiet and the only sound was the winter wind whipping the lifeless trees, I watched the flame of a single candle flicker and thought about what Christmas means to me. I looked out the window and saw a winter scene painted by an unseen hand – snow… Read More »