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The Twenty-four Days of Christmas
The Christmas season seems to begin a little earlier each year. Stores decorate and start their sales around Halloween. Lights go up on houses well before Thanksgiving, while Christmas cards show up in mailboxes by Black Friday. The longer the … Continue reading
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Tagged advent, advent wreath, calendar, chocolate, Christingle, Christmas, God, Jesus Christ, Twelve Days of Christmas
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The Senior Years
A human life has several stages, but exactly how many stages will probably cost you a Google search. Would you believe nine? Pregnancy, infancy, “the toddler years”, childhood, puberty, “the adolescent years”, adulthood, middle age, and “the senior years”. That’s … Continue reading
Posted in America, culture, food, holidays, memories
Tagged daunting, discounts, McDonalds, norman vincent peale, ralph waldo emerson, robert browning, ronald reagan, senior citizen, taco bell, wendy's
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The Fourth on the Fence
America’s Independence Day celebrations go full-on patriotic today, including a plethora of centuries-old traditions. Barbecues and fireworks. Downtown parades with marching bands. Baseball, apple pie, and ice cream. Flags, and countless costumes of red, white, and blue. Another round of … Continue reading
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Tagged American flag, Arizona, fireworks, Fourth of July, Independence Day, iota, New Mexico, Nike, parades, Trump, United States of America, Washington D.C.
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American Hollow-Day
Last Friday was a hugely important day in America! It was so hugely important I couldn’t sleep the night before! I got up twice hoping it was already morning. I stared at the numbers on the bedside clock, willing them … Continue reading
Posted in America, food, holidays
Tagged Flag Day, flag lot, Independence Day, June 14th, Memorial Day, national holidays, pop tarts, unfurled
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Boston Long
Durgin-Park, the venerable restaurant inside of Boston’s Faneuil Hall, recently closed its doors after almost two hundred years of operation. You read that right; D-P opened for business a few decades after the Revolutionary War, but served its last patron … Continue reading
Posted in America, culture, holidays, running, sports
Tagged Boston Marathon, Boston Red Sox, Durgin-Park, Faneuil Hall, Patriots' Day, Revolutionary War, running, venerable
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Lovely Are Thy Branches
Christmas prep – at our house – starts the weekend after Thanksgiving and goes all the way thru December 24th. I like to think it’s deliberate – taking a month or more to drag out the “getting ready”. Some years … Continue reading
Posted in America, culture, holidays, memories
Tagged Christmas decorations, Christmas lights, Christmas tree, Christmas tree ornaments, Christmon tree, portmanteau
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Dusting Off Dumbo
In March, Disney will release a remake of the children’s classic “Dumbo”, almost eighty years after the original. An intriguing story (Tim Burton directs), and the wonders of computer animation suggest the new version will be pretty good; standing on … Continue reading
Posted in America, culture, holidays, movies
Tagged amusement park, Christmas, cremation, disney, Disney World, Disneyland, Dumbo, Grinch, Mary Poppins
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