Tag Archives: Holiday
Away in a Manger
When I was a kid, our homemade crèche paled next to the other decorations that filled our home at Christmastime. Here was all this potential for real magic — a story supported and perpetuated by the Church and society — but it just hit … Continue reading
Posted in Christmas, Cultural Leitmotifs, Reflections
Tagged Christmas, crèche, Holiday, Joseph, manger, Mary, nativity
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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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