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Dec.14.2012
Not that I suggest anyone give anyone a free present. Mind you, I don't suggest that anyone give anyone any sort of present, as it all stems from a King's largesse. However, the powers at be have made the birth of Christ one of the most powerful economic engines in the world. A perverse yin / yang...
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Dec.14.2012
Some of you who know me well know I have a mild speech impediment. Most of the time, I can out-think it, being careful and aware of what I'm saying as I'm saying it, forming phonemes and so on with effort. The more tired I get - or, say, if I have a drink - the less that works, and the more...
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Dec.13.2012
The other night I was playing Drawsomething with Becky Cochrane, and the word that popped up was "Book." So, since like Oscar Wilde I can resist anything except temptation, I stuck out my tongue and started drawing the cover to A Coventry Christmas. My iPad version is here. If I do say so myself...
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Dec.13.2012
A friend recounts a different version of the moment of truth.
They were seated at the dinner table when her daughter asked, "Mom, is Santa real?"
"What makes you think he isn't real?"
"Mom . . . we saw four Santas yesterday," she replied.
"Do you think he's real?"
"I don't know. But I...
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Dec.13.2012
Conversations with kids around the dinner table are always fun. When we were little, my younger brother always talked animatedly about his day at school. Mom couldn't pry two words from my middle brother.
After Tommy had finally exhausted his recital of his day's events and succumbed to...
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Dec.12.2012
I have been opening my daily advent LEGO calendar as another one of my wee Christmas traditions throughout December. LEGO was a huge toy for my husband when he was a kid, and I loved it quite a bit myself (though most of my heart was definitely firmly in the grasp of the Transformers and/or...
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Dec.11.2012
After a long day of work, the bath is nearly always on the menu for me. Long soak. Hot water. Bubbles. Bath salts. I wash the day right out of my (figurative) hair and relax. So, climbing into the bath - much like climbing into Keelie's head - is just a lovely way to relax...
And the bath is...
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Dec.11.2012
I get a little bit sentimental this time of the year.
Normally, I have the reputation for being a cynical, vicious brute with an over-developed sense of the ridiculous and surreal.
But when Christmas comes around, some of my rougher edges are buffed off and casting an eye back over the year, I find...
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Dec.11.2012
I’ve been thinking quite a lot lately about my Christmas post of last year, http://redroom.com/member/jill-moore/blog/a-christmas-miracle. What a dismal Christmas that was for me. I missed my children, I missed my friends and I missed a religion-based faith that I no longer found...
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Dec.11.2012
Disclaimer:I have been a barista and I am currently an author. Also I love both coffee and books.
When the cold bite of winter and the hustle and bustle of the holidays make you weary, what is the perfect pick-me up? Coffee. And not just any coffee but flavored, spiced, milk added...
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