#Christmas

Holiday Ups and Downs

Holidays can be many things to different people, depending on their circumstances and environments and a host of other factors. For...

Anticipation

I remember hearing my Nannie Summers comment that time flew faster and faster as one got older. I never understood that as a child. It...

Books Given and Received

Readers of this blog know by now that I’m a bibliophile, I love books and reading them. Granted, I’m selective in what I read, but within...

Maintaining the Right Focus

My father-in-law was experiencing atrial fibrillation, his heart rate approaching 200. His doctors were sequentially trying several...

Merry Christmas, 2018!

The message of today’s blog post is simple and straightforward. It is no more and no less than the title indicates: Merry Christmas...

Thoughts While Posting Christmas Cards

As I sat engaged in the various tasks of readying Christmas cards for mailing, I began to muse. I weighed how the practice has changed...

Return from Hiatus

More than two weeks (actually 18 days) have passed since my last blog post. I took a little hiatus from blogging so my wife and I could...

As the Year Draws to a Close. . . .

I want to take this opportunity to thank those of you who have been faithful readers (and even a few followers) of this blog during the...

“As Slow as Christmas?”

Snarled in stop-and-go holiday shopping traffic the other day, I complained aloud the oft-repeated refrain, “This traffic is moving along...

No Losses Greater than Holiday Losses

In the past 24 hours, I’ve learned of the deaths of two friends. One, Susan Ridley, went to church with us and was active in our...

Return from Holiday Hiatus

My wife and I had vowed long ago, when our oldest daughter first moved to Wisconsin, that we would never visit there in the winter. We...

Broken Christmas Traditions

When I was a kid, one of the most popular Christmas songs was “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” sung by Gene Autry, “the singing cowboy.”...