Tag: christmas

  • Christmas crisis

    With a year of lay-offs, shut downs, plunging stock market prices, wage freezes, cutbacks and any number of other income depleting tricks, all the Whos down in Whoville are waking up to the Grinch’s attempt to steal Christmas. Be wise like the Whos. Don’t cry and commiserate, regroup and remember that presents, decorations and the…

  • Sewing class

    I really didn’t intend to cut off anyone’s fingers last weekend – I just wanted to play home-ec teacher when I invited the granddaughters to learn how to use one or another of my three sewing machines. They looked at me in total astonishment. “I’m afraid I will cut off my finger,” one explained. “That’s…

  • How will you respond?

    At this time of year, the Christmas story plays before us once again. An angel interrupted the nighttime hush that first Christmas Eve to announce the long awaited Savior to shepherds watching their flocks out in the fields near Bethlehem, “I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people.…