"This is no longer a vacation. It's a quest." - Clark W. Griswold, "National Lampoon's Vacation"
It’s beginning to a look (and feel) a lot like Christmas ’round these parts. Although the snows haven’t returned - at least any that felt like sticking - and it got up to nearly 50 degrees at one point, the bitter cold is now back, the stores are packed, and holiday celebrations have begun. My […]
Christmas 1995 was unique in that it included the only Christmas get-together that we ever had at our Woodman Park Apartments. We were still pretty much a ‘Christmas Eve’ family, opening our gifts together on Christmas Eve rather than Christmas morning. Since Mom and Dad had been divorced since 1989 and Mom had been out […]
I always thought that my Mom’s immediate family typified the All-American family unit. Her parents’ marriage endured until death did them part, her siblings remained close into their adult years, and all of their children became friends as we continue to see each other at all the major holidays…and often outside of them. Now that we have […]
I consulted last year’s web posting to see exactly what date I had my 2006 newsletter prepared, and found that the date was December 18. So I shot for that date again…and made it! Ashleigh and I finished printing, folding, signing, stapling, and mailing them out that evening (also known historically as the day that my […]
It always seems that there is going to be a long stretch between Thanksgiving and Christmas, so as usual, I delayed even thinking about preparing for Christmas until we got a week or so into December. Then time really begins to fly as I scramble around trying to get everything in place. This year has […]