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Tag Archives: holiday
Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, crab apple jelly, and red Georgia clay
New Year’s Day, 2014. I eat toast slathered with translucent red crab apple jelly that glistens like a stained glass window through its home in a tiny mason jar. It’s a Christmas gift from a daughter who found it in … Continue reading
Posted in January 2014
Tagged chestnuts, family, Georgia, holiday, Korean food, nature, New Years resolutions, travel, winter, writing
85 Comments
This week my to-do list lassoed me around the neck
Creative Story #1. This week my to-do list lassoed me around the neck, hog-tied me, and threw me in the closet. The to-do list looked like a demon, you know, wearing red Christmas long underwear and sarcastically humming, “God rest … Continue reading
Posted in December 2013
Tagged Christmas, creativity, holiday, humor, imagination, life, thoughts, to-do list
28 Comments
Kinder discovers the bathroom sink
Today I visited Linda at the Skanee Post Office and posted a Christmas package to my daughter in New York City. In return, my daughter sent a picture of one of my grand-cats, Kinder, who recently discovered the bathroom sink. … Continue reading
Posted in December 2013
Tagged cats, Christmas, family, holiday, life, love, pets, thoughts
25 Comments
Santas and Snowmen play in the snow
Every year the Santas and Snowmen sleep in the basement until the first week in December. Then they march up our spiral stairway, one by one, preparing to help us celebrate the Christmas holidays in style. Many long years ago … Continue reading
Posted in December 2013
Tagged Christmas, fun, holiday, humor, life, play, Santas and Snowmen, snow, thoughts
24 Comments
On the first day of Christmas…
I am perhaps moving this blog in a different direction for awhile, my dear loyal readers. Today I wrote three blogs and tossed two of them away. Even though they were both engaging, they felt cumbersome. I shan’t tell you … Continue reading
Posted in December 2013
Tagged blogging, Christmas, holiday, Houghton, life, Michigan, photography, Portage Canal, thoughts
75 Comments
An Elf, a Pig, and Reindeer Tracks in the Snow
Christmas lights twinkle all around. I am sending you all holiday love. Can you feel it? Did you have a wonderful time during these holy-days? Can you feel the Sun returning to the earth, lightening our days with hope and … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Christmas, Elf, family, gifts, holiday, home, life, North Woods, Santa, thoughts
62 Comments
The holiness of Santa, Merlot and angel pink spoonbill wings
I don’t know a lot. Years ago–exactly at age eleven, sprawled out on the scratchy orange and black upholstered chair in our family room–I remember thinking very assuredly, “I know everything there is to know.” That little preteen really thought … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged awareness, Christmas, holiday, holy, life, pink spoonbill, presence, spirituality, thoughts, writing
29 Comments
Skunk in the full moon
1:13 a.m. I hear you rustling in the woods. Who are you? It’s so hot. So full moon hot. Sweat drips, soaks sheets, midsummer’s sauna. Run cool bath water and recline. Ahhh, feel better, don’t you? Who’s rustling beneath the … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 4th of July, full moon, holiday, life, poem, poetry, skunk, thoughts
21 Comments
Bittersweet sigh of the heart
New Year’s Eve arises like a soft hush, a bittersweet sigh of the heart. Should auld acquaintance be forgot… Dawn refuses to paint the horizon in stained-glass reds and pinks and oranges until after 8:15 a.m. in this far cusp of the … Continue reading
What is the opposite of Thanksgiving?
Perhaps we all know what Thanksgiving is. We know what it feels like. Underneath all our turkey and stuffing, we know that Thanksgiving feels like gratitude, appreciation and love. It smells like pumpkin pie mixed with joy. It tastes like … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged family, gratitude, holiday, life, musings, Thanksgiving, thoughts
37 Comments