The other day we put the kids in the car after supper and we drove them through the twinkling streets of uptown New Orleans to marvel at the lights. We pointed out the magnificent displays – There’s Santa, Jack, riding a rocking horse – do you see him? See Liam? The red lights on the…
Category: 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, or other people through the year. This has as much to do with inertia and The Poverty as it does with ideology….
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 other side projects demanding my attention – life is BUSY, yo. But I still managed to squeeze in jotting off this description…
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 lovely post about being grateful for even those things that don’t feel like blessings, and I thought that it would be 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 for our wild times. Unfortunately, it was pouring rain, very dark, and the roads were mountainous, winding, and unfamiliar. This made me…