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Read more: Welcome the new yearI’m looking forward to a new year, and I hope you are looking forward to 2017, too. I’ve always liked this quote by Rainer Maria…
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Read more: The holiest of holidaysWe celebrate Christmas with presents, friends and family, with song and story. We also celebrate in our memories, in silence, in our hearts. “The holiest…
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Read more: Like a child“There is nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child,” Erma Bombeck once said. We wish you childlike…
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Read more: The best presents“Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn’t come from a store.” –Dr. Seuss We wish you the best presents of Christmas—friends and family around you—and joy…
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Read more: It’s a feeling“Christmas isn’t a season,” Edna Ferber once said. “It’s a feeling.” During this Christmas season, we wish you joy and hope and love.
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Read more: The Puritans didn’t like ChristmasIn 1659, the Puritan government of the Massachusetts Bay Colony actually banned Christmas. The Congregationalists, Methodists and Quakers at various times also tried to de-emphasize…
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Read more: The noblest giftToo much food, too many things on my to-do list, too many very special activities. This is the most delightful season. But sometimes it seems…
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Read more: What I don’t need“How many things there are which I do not need!” Socrates once said. That’s a good quote for me to remember when I am buying…
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Read more: A Christmas traditionChristmas is a wonderful holiday, full of meaning. But, it is a busy time. “I get started early,” I told my husband a couple of…
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Read more: It’s December!Everyone came to our house Saturday night for a birthday party. Then, on Sunday, I helped a friend with her open house. Last night, my…