Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
Have you seen the City Park Christmas Tree this year? I wager she’s never looked better. She took my breath away when I went careening up Drew Street and caught her brilliance out of the corner of my eye. A thousand lights, no maybe ten times 10,000 lights beamed back at me. I set aside [...]
My Christmas elves have been making their way home this week and turning our wise, old house into their workshop. Lucky us! Our youngest daughter Molly was the first to arrive and she set right to work. "I'm going to fix some things around here," she announced. "I want to be handy." She asked if [...]
In a perfect world, all of the people I love would crowd around my mother in-law's hand-me-down dining room table every Christmas Eve, holding hands and singing fahoo fores in matching Christmas jammies while fat snowflakes floated harmlessly to the ground outside our windows and the exact right presents sat beautifully wrapped under the tree. [...]
Christmas lights will break your heart…and maybe burn your husband’s retinas. At least, that’s been my experience, and I have had about a billion frustrating Christmas light experiences, so I ought to know. Hubris and the really bad juju of a dead squirrel got me this year. Here is my story: Last Friday, noting the [...]
Christmas does not knock gently on our front door, it kicks it wide open like a tipsy old friend saying just a little too loudly, "Oh My God! I've missed you!!!" It comes at us like a bear hug in a crowded grocery store, the kind you see coming out of the corner of your [...]