There’s nothing sadder in

There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. Erma Bombeck

Christmas is a necessity.

Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we’re here for something else besides ourselves. Eric Sevareid

At Christmas A man

At Christmas A man is at his finest towards the finish of the year; He is almost what he should be when the Christmas season’s here; Then he’s thinking more of others than he’s thought the months before, And the laughter of his children is a joy worth toiling for. He is less a selfish … Read more

Christmas… is not an

Christmas… is not an external event at all, but a piece of one’s home that one carries in one’s heart. Freya Stark

Oh! lovely voices of

Oh! lovely voices of the sky Which hymned the Saviour’s birth, Are ye not singing still on high, Ye that sang, \”Peace on earth\”? Felicia Hemans

And the Grinch, with

And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled ’till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before. What … Read more

As we struggle with

As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December’s bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same. Donald E. Westlake