Category Archives: Reflections
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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Holiday Spirit(s)
I was the last child of three. And with each Christmas, my older siblings’ interests in the holiday waned. My mother, too, seemed to care a little less about all the preparations each year. So, in the void they left … Continue reading
Posted in Christmas, Cultural Leitmotifs, Monsters, Reflections
Tagged Christmas, Creature from the Black Lagoon, G.I. Joe, Gumby, Holiday Spirit, Perry Como, Tarzan
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