3 Tips for Overcoming Grief at Holiday Time
Ah, the holidays. Halls, houses, and lawns are decked with festive decorations. Kitchens are filled with delightful, savory aromas. The air is laced with laughter, familiar music, and the tinkling...
Christmas
Learn more about Christmas with this assortment of articles ranging from picking a Christmas tree to Santa and buying presents
Telling Your Kids That Santa Isn’t Real
There comes a time in every child’s life when he starts to question everything he’s ever been taught by his elders. In particular, kids begin to doubt how real certain...
Tell the Kids that Santa’s in a Recession
Each year, around this time, children sit down at the table and write a letter to Santa, providing him with a bit of insight into all the things they’d like...
The Pressure of the Christmas Season
It’s the most wonderful time of the year…or at least it’s supposed to be. In actuality, countless people become entirely overwhelmed by the “demands” that the Christmas season brings. It’s...
Those Who Believe Receive – A Christmas Story
There she stood. 4 years old, with her hair up in pig tails, a red taffeta dress and a sparkle in her eyes that only belongs to the young. Her...
Winter Solstice – The Shortest Day of the Year
The winter solstice is the “shortest” day of the year. It is the day that the northern hemisphere experiences the least amount of daylight and the most amount of darkness....
What is Boxing Day?
On a typical American calendar, the day after Christmas is clearly marked with Boxing Day, typically with Canada written in parenthesis to explain that this holiday is not celebrated in...
The Nativity – The Christmas Story
Our nativity scene always went under the Christmas tree, usually with a backdrop of whatever we had created that year for scenery. The nativity figurines were made in my brother’s...
The Meaning of Christmas – It’s Not Just About Getting Gifts
Each year around this time of year, the whole world gets sentimental. It becomes habitual and kind to wish perfect strangers well and to carry our hearts on our sleeves...
The History of Christmas Cards
For as often as people complain about having to sit down and write out Christmas cards, everyone knows that Christmas just wouldn’t be the same without them. Christmas cards typically...