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Dec.17.2010
Over the years I've received many holiday gifts but two gifts stand out among the others as my favorite. The first gift was my marriage a week before Christmas to my husband, who dressed himself with a bow on his bathrobe because we couldn't afford presents.
As for the second gift, it was on a...
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Dec.17.2010
So we were lighting the Chanukah lights, my goyishe hubby and I. The sky is dark outside and the night is cold. Our son is away at college and this makes the house seem, you know, big and empty.
I light the candles because they are beautiful. I light them because my mother and my grandmother...
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Dec.17.2010
I roll the tape backwards, through the many Christmases that came and went, some in joy, some in sadness, some in anger or despair, and I arrive at the Christmas of 1957. What a year that had been. Bogart died, Sputnik was launched, Jack Kerouac’s On the Road got published, Bobby Fischer (at age 13...
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Dec.16.2010
Can you imagine not being able to move? Not being able to speak? Not being able to itch a scratch? Not being able to call for help? Not being able to pick up the phone and tell your friends and family how much you love them?
This is what life was like for my friend, Craig Dunham. He was diagnosed...
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Dec.16.2010
When I was eleven and on the verge of Christmas Eve, twelfth month, my twelfth birthday, we were living in poverty. We had just returned "home" from our move to AZ with nothing but the shirts on our backs. My dad had had an auction in the summer before and we moved with the promise of a...
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Dec.16.2010
I may be Episcopalian but I have a soft spot for Lord Ganesh. I like the idea that a gentle elephant god should be Remover of Obstacles. He’s a good problem-solver, too: when charged with circling the universe, he walked around his parents, saying they were all his worlds.
One morning, after...
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Dec.16.2010
My paternal grandfather was from Corning, in Northern California. He worked at CalTrans before it was CalTrans, supervising the maintenance of a network of highways up in that part of the state. At some point after that, he became a walnut farmer in Anderson, living in a neat little house at the...
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Dec.16.2010
One year when my two boys were about teen and pre-teen age they each decided to make me a cassette tape of my favorite songs as my holiday gift (yes, we had tapes in those days). They chose independently which songs I liked and recorded them onto a tape, one titled "Mommy's Songs" the...
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Dec.16.2010
I relish reaching far back into time to truly gain perspective on my favorite holiday gifts. Its the mid to early fifties in El Paso ,texas. I am 4 years old. we live on brown street, in a snug house with a unit in the back. If we were lucky during christmas, it would leave a blanket of snow all...
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Dec.16.2010
The Greatest Gift
(A Nunchuck-Free Noel)
We have developed a tradition in our house at Christmas. Every year the kids ask for a Wii, and every year they don't get one. And yet, miraculously, Christmas Day comes and goes with no disappointment. I have had weak moments, like the year when the Fed...
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