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After Christmas Blues

2008-12-27T04:39:37Z

I always feel let down to some degree right after Christmas, whether or not I had a good holiday. If I had a good Christmas, I want the feelings to go on, but if my Christmas sucked, I feel down because there's no hope left for recovering the holi...

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Christmases Past

2008-12-25T22:43:22Z

Both my parents grew up during the Depression. My mother was the eldest of four children and her family had an easier time of it during that time than my father, who was the eldest child in a tenant farmer family of eight children. Today, I thou...

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Silent Night, 1944

2008-12-24T18:19:43Z

I found an interesting story about Christmas during World War II for one soldier that I thought my readers might enjoy. Following is the story in the soldier's own words: On 24 December 1944 I was spending my Christmas at a little place called ...

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Cat Christmas Tree

2008-12-24T01:45:51Z

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Bad Santa

2008-12-22T04:22:13Z

When Santa Runs Out of Coal...

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Christmas Charity and Teenagers

2008-12-18T17:29:31Z

During the Christmas season, while many people are out buying gifts for loved ones, they are also thinking of charity, what they can do to help the less fortunate during the holiday season. In my town, the Salvation Army bellringers are out at W...

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A Christmas Tradition

2008-12-16T19:09:10Z

Every year, when it came time to decorate the Christmas tree, when my mother and, later, my father, would unpack the lights and the ornaments, they'd find light strands that no longer worked, boxes of broken ornaments, and there would never be eno...

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Political Correctness Gone Haywire

2008-12-11T17:50:39Z

It seems as if the political correctness police have a new target: Santa Claus. In Sydney, Australia, department store Santas have been banned from saying "Ho, ho, ho" to the children who come to see them, being instructed to say, "Ha, ha, ha, in...

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The Reason For The Season?

2008-12-08T19:09:32Z

In recent years, we've heard about a supposed "War on Christmas", which is implicated as one facet of a war on Christianity in general. Some people are now offended by the long-standing greeting, "Happy Holidays", even though it's been around, wi...

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Christmas Lights: White or Multi-Colored?

2008-12-05T18:40:49Z

When I was a little kid in the sixties, nearly everyone used multi-colored strings of lights for their Christmas decorating. Strands with small bulbs were used on the indoor trees, sometimes the blinking kind, while most people used the large-bu...

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