My Boring New Year’s Eve If you like pointed hats, confetti, and cocktails, then I suggest you not read any further; for I am the Ebenezer Scrooge of New Year’s Eve. If there were such things as ghosts of New Year’s past, present and future, they certainly would have haunted me by now. I suppose it all began… Read More »
They Can’t Steal My Christmas “On a quiet evening watching winter snowflakes fall – The candle in the window casting shadows on the wall. The village streets are empty on this snowy Christmas Eve; Oh to be a child again and see the innocence in all.” The house is dark and quiet. I sit by the window watching… Read More »
A Very Special Thanksgiving When I think of Thanksgiving, I think of myself as a boy, watching the Thanksgiving parade on television, mom busy in the kitchen preparing our Thanksgiving dinner and the feeling of love all around. I remember gray, cold and cloudy days and the steamy windows that cooking made. And I remember Thanksgiving snowflakes in… Read More »
Turkey Time: Caring for a Dead Turkey It’s hard to believe that Thanksgiving is just two weeks away. Many of you are already planning your Thanksgiving menus. And I’m betting a lot of you are going traditional this year and having turkey. A turkey is a lot more than a stupid bird that cannot fly very well. (Can… Read More »
November Here, in November, all things that grow upon the Earth choke on the cold, wet air and die unceremoniously in masses of brown death. Each November brings a pestilence of darkness. The sun goes to bed early and sleeps late every morning. The cold, nearly-frozen rain taunts the landscape, but stays just on the liquid side of… Read More »
Fall Back I wrote last spring about not wanting to sound like an idiot by walking around saying “Daylight Savings Time”. The grammar police and other people who have no lives and nothing better to do with their time other than criticize people for adding an “S” to “Saving”, are adamant and will continue their verbal fusillade until… Read More »