Mother’s Day is on the quite long list of holidays I would just as soon ignore. I’ve written previously about my ambivalence toward Christmas, but actually I don’t like most holidays and celebrations including birthdays. Sometimes my poor attitude is because I don’t like attention focused on me. That made planning our wedding difficult. And it […]
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Living in the Christmas Season, Again
The images of the “Holiday season” are lovely aren’t they? Multi-generation families happy, healthy, and whole. Friends sharing food and good times. People at peace with themselves and with each other. But these images also point out the distance between the way we want our lives to be and the reality that falls so short […]
Putting Christmas where it belongs
It is the end of November and we are deeply into the “holiday season”. Christmas lights and pumpkins have been in the same store aisle. The season that used to begin on the Friday after Thanksgiving has been steadily creeping; first past Thanksgiving, then past Halloween and now into September. Each year I feel at […]
