Tag Archives: holiday

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, crab apple jelly, and red Georgia clay

Posted on January 1, 2014 by

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 →

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This week my to-do list lassoed me around the neck

Posted on December 20, 2013 by

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 →

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Kinder discovers the bathroom sink

Posted on December 12, 2013 by

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 →

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Santas and Snowmen play in the snow

Posted on December 5, 2013 by

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 →

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On the first day of Christmas…

Posted on December 1, 2013 by

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 →

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An Elf, a Pig, and Reindeer Tracks in the Snow

Posted on December 26, 2012 by

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 →

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The holiness of Santa, Merlot and angel pink spoonbill wings

Posted on December 6, 2012 by

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 →

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Skunk in the full moon

Posted on July 4, 2012 by

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 →

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Bittersweet sigh of the heart

Posted on December 31, 2011 by

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 →

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What is the opposite of Thanksgiving?

Posted on November 24, 2011 by

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 →

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