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Special Memories of Special Students at Christmas
Dear Reader: A little clue about what my Christmas Eve Story is going to be about this year…the love between a teacher and his/her students at Christmas. Have you ever wondered if your favorite...
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Hard Defining Christmas? Start with PEOPLE!
Dear Reader: Isn’t there a different feeling when you receive a gift at Christmas from a friend or family member who is excited about you opening it or acknowledging something that serves as a happy...
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Enjoy Today!
Dear Reader: Dear Reader: Yesterday was the Summerville Chapter of the MS Society’s Annual Christmas Luncheon/Party. It never disappoints. Gwen outdoes herself decorating each table for this amazing...
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It’s “Elfing” Time!
Dear Reader: With my loyal doll, Polly, looking on, my assistant elf, (*I got Polly for Christmas when I was five) Grandmother Boo, the Head Elf, is starting to finish up all the last tasks still left...
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Becoming an Instigator “Elf” at Christmas
Dear Reader: As I ride down the main entrance into my neighborhood I automatically look to see if the “red tree” on the right still has its beautiful scarlet leaves on it! The other day when I saw...
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One Different Decision…One Different Path
Dear Reader: Most of us in our careers make hundreds of decisions daily without giving much reflection or thought to them…they are more like automatic responses. I remember reading in an educational...
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Spoiling Jesus…A Grandmother’s Tale
Painting: (Courtesy of LeonardodaVinci.net) Dear Reader: Doesn’t the thought of Jesus having a grandmother to spoil Him warm your heart? Don’t all children deserve such grandmothers? And particularly...
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If You Have Christmas in Your Heart…You Feel It in the Air
Dear Reader: I have my fingers and toes crossed that ‘Little Big Red’...my ‘chip off the old block’ …cloned from its decade-old father geranium will survive the next two nights in tact. The...
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A Frosty Morn Near Christmas
Dear Reader: We will not have a snowy Christmas this year… but yesterday morning came pretty close to looking like one. I opened my front door around 8:00 a.m. to check and see if ‘Little Big Red’...
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Summerville Christmases and Winter Solstices Connected by History
Dear Reader: Today is the Winter Solstice…the day when darkness prevails… culminating in this meteorological phenomenon ‘dubbed’ nowadays as the ‘shortest day’ of the year. Man, in ancient times,...
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Ancestry.Com and Jesus’ Family Tree at Christmas
Dear Reader: How many times have we sung “O Come O Come Emmanuel” and wondered about the second inferred reference with the words “Draw nigh, O Jesse’s Rod “… Matthew 1:23: “A virgin will conceive and...
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Tis’ The Season for Christmas God Winks
Dear Reader: Like a domino effect, the God Winks started innocently enough Saturday evening when Bill Dingle, my brother-in-law, texted me to say that his oldest daughter, Emma, a freshman at Western...
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The Christmas Story Has It All
Dear Reader: It is a bit of an oxymoron when we attend Christmas Eve services to listen to Luke’s Christmas Story…settling in quite comfortably and peacefully in our pews to hear the reassuring...
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Ornaments and Christmas Memories
Dear Reader: This year (for the annual Christmas Eve story at my church) I adapted the last short story my friend and author, Gloria Houston, wrote as part of a Christmas anthology she was asked (by...
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Christmas Isn’t about Fulfillment… But It’s a Starting Point
Dear Reader: As darkness descended Christmas night and crowds of neighbors’ families/friends left with cars moving in and out on our usual quiet little road…it was evident Christmas was ending…I knew...
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Days of Rest and Refuge
Dear Reader: After all these years there are two types of Christmas decorators…the one that put their tree up the day after Thanksgiving and bring it down (yesterday) the day after Christmas. For you...
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The Thin Veil Between Joy and Happiness, Sadness and Sorrow
Dear Reader: *I wish I could say this was a personal photo of my Sammy who came to visit me yesterday (Cindy Ashley sent it) but Cindy you were actually very close to what happened. (*I had forgotten...
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Tired of My Company-Meaning Me!
Dear Reader: Usually me, myself, and I get along pretty well. I actually kind of like myself after all these years (forgive the pun but I have grown accustomed to myself). I am not as hard on myself...
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“Just Five More Minutes…Please?”
Dear Reader: How many of us remember as children playing the “Just five more minutes, please?” card each day, normally before a nap and/or especially bedtime…since children dismiss sleep,...
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“Hindsight is 20/20” as We Enter 2020!
Dear Reader: Before Anne left for Florida with family for the holidays she had made a connection that she thought I would have fun with as a post introducing the new year. She was right…a great early...
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