"Hey Wally, when did life get so tough?" - Beaver, "Still the Beaver"
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 […]
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 […]