"There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you'll be free if you truly wish to be." - Willy Wonka, "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory"
Of the big three holidays - Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas- that came in 1972, I only have photographs of the latter. I am certain that I did not participate in the Trick or Treat festivities of ‘72, being still too young for them to have been fun for me. If I had, I am sure there would […]
For Christmas 1979, Dad bought the family a black and white video camera. On that Christmas, we opened it up on Christmas morning, so we were only able to actually record the aftermath of the holiday morning. 1980 was the first time where we were able to create a nearly complete record of the events of Christmas Eve […]
Most likely because this was our first Christmas with Denise, my parents decided to take over the duties of hosting Christmas Eve. For the previous six years of my parents’ marriage and the first five years of my life, it had been held at Carl and Arline’s house, but now the torch was passed on […]
It had been quite a while since I had had the pleasure of watching a little kid open up their gifts from Santa Claus on Christmas morning. But this year, Jackie and Grace stayed over and Santa delivered the gifts to my house. She sluggishly made her way downstairs at about 8am and began to […]
Monday, December 24 was the first Christmas Eve that I had worked since 2000. Although there were a few store emergencies (one that 383 will likely never forget) and a meeting with the Key Retailing folks, the day just absolutely flew by - and by noon, my boss John told me to leave. I got […]