::This post ran just a few days after Christmas last year, December 27, 2004.:: I spent the first part of the Christmas Eve service hiding. We had traveled to my sister Jacqui’s in Grand Forks. Before supper and the rest of the evening’s festivities, we attended the Christmas Eve service at her church. We have [...]
December 26, 2005 6 Comments
December 18, 2005 2 Comments
The second scourge of Christmas.
The second scourge of Christmas would be Christmas albums. A true Christmas album should have a glockenspiel and maybe a boys’ choir in it! None of this Mariah Carey nonsense, dressed as Mrs. Claus if she were an adult film star, giggling and overworking Christmas music! No. And let’s be blunt: there’s only so many [...]
December 17, 2005 3 Comments
The first scourge of Christmas.
The first scourge of Christmas is the dreaded Christmas Letter. You’ve gotten these letters. The are filled with paragraphs filled with thoughts like the following examples: Our son just about cured cancer but we decided to enroll him in preschool instead. We hiked to the top of Kilimanjaro and planted a tree; flew to Hawaii [...]
