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Christmas Note #3: The Worst Christmas Tree Ever
Click through to see: http://9lols.net/the-worst-christmas-tree-ever/the-worst-christmas-tree-ever/ Not to be outdone, Huffington Post offers “WTF Ornaments: 45 Worst Christmas Tree Decorations.” What’s with the mermaid tails? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/11/wtf-ornaments-45-worst-christmas-tree-decorations_n_2278305.html Our little Charlie Brown tree look positively regal by comparison.
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Christmas Note #2: The Christmas Truce, in Their Own Words
I shared the World War I Christmas truce of 1914 in a previous year’s Christmas Note, but how much better it is to hear it in the words of the men who were there. Here’s a podcast from the Imperial War Museum’s … Continue reading
Christmas Note #1: Amazing A Capella
Despite spending many years as a member of our church’s youth choirs, I’m the first to admit, I don’t sing very well or even tunefully. So a capella groups confound me. How do they do it? Luckily, I don’t have to understand sublime music … Continue reading
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Tagged Christmas, Christmas music, Christmas note, Little Drummer Boy, Pentatonix
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Let the Christmas Music Commence
Oh, stop the groaning already! I get enough from Darling Daughter and The Engineer. As soon as I stick in a holiday CD or punch the button on my iPod (because, hey, I do live in the twenty-first century), it’s complaints all round. … Continue reading
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Tagged Bing and Bowie, Christmas, Christmas music, compromise, Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth
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New Eyes: On Finding a Fresh Perspective
“The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” — Marcel Proust Claude Monet painted in Giverny from 1883 to 1926 (http://tinyurl.com/ld94xqh — Rick Steves’ article), something I’ve always found difficult to comprehend. How anyone … Continue reading
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Tagged Buzzards, Hinckley, hinckley metropark, Hinckley Reservoir, New eyes, Perspective, Turkey Vultures, Writing
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Canning: A Connection to the Past
When I was young, most of our fruit and nearly all our vegetables came from the garden or nearby farms, freshly picked in summer and from jars that filled the two large cupboards in our basement during the rest of … Continue reading
Do Women Write Better Than Men?
Or do men write better than women? It depends on who you ask. As a librarian whose main job is to select items for people who can’t get to the library, I can tell you reading tastes are highly individualized. … Continue reading
The Will to Live
Earlier this summer, city workers in a nearby town chopped down a bunch of trees along a roadside. This wasn’t as terrible an act as it sounds. The trees weren’t big or old, and I remember reading in the paper … Continue reading
This Is Not a Cooking Blog
A rave about food: This is not a cooking blog. And I am clearly not a food photographer. If it was and I were, this picture would look a lot more appetizing. I don’t care. I sort of made up … Continue reading
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Tagged Cooking, Corn Chowder, Corn soup, Delicious, Easy, Fresh Corn Soup, Potato leek soup, recipe, Soup
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When I Grow Old … .
A Rave About Getting Old When I get older, I want to be like my mom. Yesterday, we went out to lunch for her eighty-fourth birthday, which she enjoyed. But truthfully, she was more thrilled by the Solitaire app I downloaded on her Nook. Seriously, … Continue reading
Reading, Writing, Ranting and Raving 