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Holidays, Holy Days, and Faith
A calendar in the sacristy of St. Raphael’s has an Episcopalian-flavored cartoon for each month. In the first panel of April’s cartoon, a priest is shown with arms outspread, saying “Christ is alive!”...
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Tis The Season To Get Crazy
The winter holiday season seems to be an engraved invitation to depression and desperation, all under the guise of jollity, and we writers are far from immune. First of all, it’s winter. Anyone with...
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A Glimpse into History: holiday time on a Minnesota farm
by Sherwood Smith My grandmother died a couple months ago, just short of her 97th birthday, as a result of a fall, or she’d still be going strong. I thought I’d share a few memories that she shared...
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Nostalgia Vacations and Indoor Volcanoes
There was another report this week about the rise in the traditional British holiday. Part of this is down to economics – ever since the financial melt down of 2008 people have had less money to spend...
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BVC Announces Three Dogs, a Horse, and a Cat by Jill Zeller
Three Dogs, a Horse, and a Cat Five tales of animals and love by Jill Zeller A dog brings harmony to a choral group. A horse kick-starts a young man’s life. And peace comes to a broken love affair...
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More Than Decoration
A bunny angel tree topper! Holiday decorations are a big deal in my family. I have sisters who teach elementary school—they are decorating pros. But it was my mother and her sisters who took Christmas...
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Approaching Holidays
I’m not sure about how I feel about the holidays this year. Thanksgiving has never been that big for me, but it is a lovely time to spend with family and have dysfunctional moments with my teenagers....
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A Meerkat Rants: Keep Your Boom off My Lawn
This one’s for the Americans. It’s July, therefore we’re embroiled in those debates again. You know the one, where some folk are demanding their god-given and Constitutional right to set of explosives...
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Michaelmas
If you’ve read much historical fiction set in Great Britain, you may have run across the word Michaelmas—there’s Michaelmas term at Oxford and Cambridge (and Eton, for that matter), and Michaelmas...
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Gratitude and Oxytocin
It’s a challenge to shift into gratitude mode. I’ve been hearing about how people are coping with not being able to be with family at this time of year. Sharing favorite family dishes door to door....
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