holiday traditions | holiday traditions
Nov.25.2012
"...the second reason I love Christmas season is because it has amazing food. For example, cookies, hot cocoa (technically it's not a food), turkey, ham, peppermint bark, etc. And I love these foods especially because they are filled with butter, cream, fat and sugar. C'mon, let's not act like we...
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Dec.22.2011
The Mother/Daughter Dynamic duo ring in the holidays with stories, memories, and tips for a happy season on Starstyle‰-Be the Star You Are! radio broadcasting ilve to 219 countries worldwide on Voice America/World Talk Radio.
The halls are decked with holly, sleigh bells ring, we sing...
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Dec.21.2011
On winter mornings leading up to Christmas, I sometimes see the imprints of small cloven hooves breaking the frost on the lawn.
“The julebukk was here!” I hear my child’s heart cry, and I’m leaning over the red Formica table in our...
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Dec.18.2011
"It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before.
'What if Christmas,' he thought, 'doesn't come from a store?'
What if Christmas, perhaps,...
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Dec.14.2011
"Christmas makes me happy no matter what time of year it comes around.” ~ Bryan White
Before I get to Mom’s annual yuletide meltdown (which is pretty funny, and no one was harmed in any way — except an inanimate holiday decoration — year after year I might add) I wanted to...
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Dec.13.2011
Shopping for fruitcake has been an interesting experience and I've come across quite a few variations on the fruitcake theme, including a monastery in Oregon that sells 6 slices of fruitcake covered in chocolate for almost as much as a whole tinned fruitcake. Maybe not. Don't think the fruitcake is...
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Dec.23.2010
Not long ago, my brother called. He was going to be visiting our parents for Thanksgiving, and being a chef, would be doing the cooking. He was trying to remember our holiday menu. Even my mother had no clue what she made for dessert. It wasn't pumpkin pie, because she didn't like it, but no one...
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Dec.08.2010
You never know when you peel that tenth pound of potatoes for Hanukkah latkes where it's all going to end up. Short term, a latke or two, still sizzling from the pan, will be snatched up by family members drawn to the kitchen by the unmistakable aroma of oil, onion, and potato. Most of those...
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Nov.19.2010
This year, my family Thanksgiving plans imploded. One family member was feuding with another and someone else was taking sides and pretty soon everyone cancelled their plans to come to our house. I was furious. I told my husband that I didn't want a lonely Thanksgiving with our daughters, the four...
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Mar.25.2010
Frequent visitor to my blog at "Terry's Place", Elizabeth Spann Craig, spends some time each day on Twitter, giving references to blogs about the writing craft. I followed one of her links to this site about writing a first draft.
There's some good advice here, as long as you don't...
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