Category Archives: Reflections
Fruitcake Weather
It’s always the same: a morning arrives in late November, and my friend, as though officially inaugurating the Christmas time of year that exhilarates her imagination and fuels the blaze of her heart, announces: “It’s fruitcake weather! Fetch our buggy. … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Christmas, Cultural Leitmotifs, Reflections
Tagged A Christmas Carol, A Christmas Memory, Charles Dickens, Christmas, Fruitcake, Holiday, Stephen Nissenbaum, The Battle for Christmas, The Life Book of Christmas, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Truman Capote, Washington Irving
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The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
To a solitary child, the world outside his head can feel a bit oppressive. Each morning of the school week becomes an exercise in steely determination. He knows he has to cross that border at the edge of his internal … Continue reading