Holidays and Celebrations

  • Christmas Commercialism – DEFENDED

    I’m bucking the trend and saying yes, I love the buying of Things at Christmastime.  For me, Christmas is the “gratification” part of “delayed gratification.”  I don’t buy stuff for my kids, myself,…

  • Thanksgiving Trip

    I am in the middle of exams, I have a wedding to update (I’ve written snippets here and there, but I need to link them all together into something coherent), I have various…

  • Giving Thanks

    On this lovely, warm, twinkling Thanksgiving morning, surrounded by family, hot coffee in hand, warm fire aglow in the corner, I am thankful for all of my many blessings.  Attorney at Large wrote a…

  • Wedding Part Deux

    My sister got married in a small, quiet mountain town.  It was a lovely place for a wedding, but just wouldn’t do for a bachelorette, so we had decided to go farther afield…