Twas the Week of Christmas
21 December 2023 Twas the Week of Christmas By Debra Milligan Twas the week of Christmas and all through the house every creature was...
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Dec 10, 2023
Cantique de Noël
10 December 2023 Cantique de Noël Musique par Adolphe Adam, paroles par Placide Cappeau Minuit, chrétiens, C’est l’heure solennelle Où...
Dec 10, 2023
Away in A Manger
10 December 2023 This morning, I received a message of profound truth and joy in my email box. I needed to read, and believe anew, these...
Dec 6, 2023
I'll Be Home for Christmas
December 2023 I’ll Be Home for Christmas Music by Walter Kent with lyrics by Kim Gannon and Buck Ram I’ll be home for Christmas You can...
Dec 5, 2023
White Christmas
December 2023 White Christmas by Irving Berlin I’m dreaming of a white Christmas just like ones I used to know Where the treetops glisten...
Dec 5, 2023
The Christmas Song
December 2024 The Christmas Song Written by Robert Wells and Mel Tormé Chestnuts roasting on an open fire Jack Frost nipping at your nose...
Dec 4, 2023
I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
December 2023 I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm Written and Composed by Irving Berlin The snow, it is snowing and the wind, it is blowing...
Dec 4, 2023
Let It Snow! An L.A. State of Mind
December 2023 Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Music by Jule Styne with lyrics by Sammy Cahn Oh, the weather outside is frightful...
Dec 1, 2023
Gifts from Writers Introduction
December 2023 This Gifts from Wrtiers section continues a tradition that I’d begun on my website when first it commenced in 2013. Many...
Dec 30, 2022
Dead Week Special: The Cookie Rises
30 December 2022 When I was industriously labouring in Office World at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Dead Week was the name that one...
Dec 25, 2022
Martha Blah Blah
Christmas 2022 This children’s book was published in 1996. The authoress is Susan Meddaugh, and I have to thank her for one of the most...
Dec 24, 2022
The Shopping Quilt
Christmas 2022 The Shopping Quilt Shopping is a woman’s art for what to hold and for what to part from: the past, or even the present....
Dec 24, 2022
Noël 2022 - Gifts from This Writer
Noël 2022 Gifts from This Writer Twas the night before Christmas and I will not deny I was editing scenes of a novel on the sly. I’d been...
Dec 12, 2021
Weather or Not
12 December 2021 This morning, the storm door officially opened in northern California — in ALL of California. The portal flung open...
Dec 24, 2020
Twas the Night Before Christmas
Christmas Eve 2020 The following paragraphs are taken directly from the 1949 edition of The Little Golden Books, published by Golden...
Dec 7, 2020
Pearl Harbor Day 2020
7 December 2020 I am presently progressing, or plowing, through the translation of the first chapter of the Final Book, Book 7, of THE...
Dec 25, 2019
Santa in the Hoosegow
Christmas 2019 One of my all-time favorite tele-visual feasts at Christmastime is Episode #10 of Season 1 of Early Edition. This vintage...
Dec 22, 2019
The Bishop's Wife
Christmas 2019 Western Gifts from Writers These literary gifts are from writers of Western Civilization, but not necessarily from writers...
Dec 21, 2019
Light in the Darkness
21 December 2019 Solstice Saturday Light in the Darkness I am thinking today of a girl whom I knew, or thought I knew, as a child. She...
Dec 17, 2018
Awakenings
17 December 2018 I awoke this morning at 7 or so. This awakening was not a matter of being fully awake. I did not open my eyes. My...
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