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Dec.15.2009
For those of you who have not been reading my Christmas Story's (normally on a Thursday) up to now, each year I write a special holiday story, and have done since 1999. I will share them each week until finally just before Christmas I will publish this seasons story.
Today's is from 2006, and...
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Dec.10.2009
Today's Christmas Story is from 2005, and as requested have added a narrated version, so if you want to hear that just click the microphone at the end of the story.
Laura finished typing the last part of her report, sat back and looked around the office. Snow covered the pavements, and with...
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Nov.30.2009
I turned over the Calender this evening to find December is already upon us. A small amount of maths later and a check of where I was up to and I realized that I would not get all my Christmas Stories in before December 25th. So here's a Thursday story on a Monday.
Today's is from 2003, one of...
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Nov.26.2009
For those of you who have not been reading my Thursday Story's up to now, each year I write a special holiday story, and have done since 1999. I will share one each Thursday until finally just before Christmas I will publish this seasons story.
Today's is from 2002, you might have heard me...
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Nov.19.2009
For those of you who have not been reading my Thursday Story's up to now, each year I write a special holiday story, and have done since 1999. I will share one each Thursday until finally just before Christmas I will publish this seasons story.
Today's is from 2001 and is basically true, as you can...
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Nov.12.2009
CHRISTMAS PAST (2000)
The dinner plates had been washed by an array of sometimes willing helpers, soft snores and full stomachs meant it was rest time before the evening present giving and more food. Children had been bribed with promises of things to come and were sleeping, or trying to sleep. A...
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Nov.12.2009
CHRISTMAS PAST (2000)
The dinner plates had been washed by an array of sometimes willing helpers, soft snores and full stomachs meant it was rest time before the evening present giving and more food. Children had been bribed with promises of things to come and were sleeping, or trying to sleep. A...
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Dec.18.2008
I get about two hundred emails a day and about half are spam. Most spam is pretty obvious, but just now one came in that seemed more sophisticated than usual. It said it was from “Paulo Coelho.” Sure, the world-famous bestselling author of The Alchemist, a short and timeless inspirational novel,...
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Dec.08.2008
For years I kept Christ out of Christmas. I celebrated the sacred winter holiday as secular family time. Yet to me, family is sacred.
When my younger son, now a self-proclaimed atheist, was little he was drawn to crèche scenes. Years ago, when my mother was ready to part with her moss-bare manger...
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