Not simply having a wonderful Christmas time

Not simply having a wonderful Christmas time

We did not simply have a wonderful Christmas time. I wonder sometimes what Paul McCartney meant when he wrote that phrase over and over again in that Christmas song you hear every single time you run into a store frantic for some ingredient you forgot. Is anything simple about Christmas time? This year the coronavirus [...]

I Griswolded our Christmas lights…again!

I Griswolded our Christmas lights…again!

I frightened my neighbors as I hung up our Christmas lights...I always do. My family knows better. They flee the house at the first sulphur whiff of the bulbs. But, lured by an unseasonably warm afternoon and a sweet innocence I’ve yet to destroy, my neighbors strolled happily past our house Sunday afternoon. They waved [...]