Collecting My Thoughts

What could be better? I opened 11 Christmas cards and it's snowing outside! I love them all, but really enjoy the notes and letters. It...

 I'm serving Christmas dinner tonight--Christmas Eve.  Then tomorrow we'll have left overs.  That works out well because Christmas i...

For the last two years I haven't added a newsy letter to Bob's Christmas card--a watercolor with a greeting. Our lives changed forev...

When the mail arrived today I looked through it and pulled out a Christmas catalog to throw away.  But it felt a little thick, so I opened i...

 In 1993, I was still 6 years away from voting for a Democrat for president, but I could certainly sniff out bias. Came across this let...

  Since we were having Easter dinner here in two days, I thought it might be time to put away the Christmas cards. I take one last look,...

Three Word Wednesday gives writers, poets and those who journal a mid-week jolt of creativity. Each week, three words are selected; and par...

Some people make fun of Christmas letters, the ones from friends you hear from once a year, but I love them. Monday we caught up with friend...

Kelly Rogers Denton of 4 South Hannah Ave.,  Mt. Morris, Illinois says she received this letter on Tuesday, December 16th. It's postma...

George W. Bush spent 12 Christmases at Camp David, four with his father, and 8 with his family when he was in the White House.  That is one ...

But this is a lovely, if stylized, memory of Christmas as it probably never was.  I saw it at Flyover Culture on Facebook, which has the m...

I. THE ANGELS The existence of angels — a truth of faith 328 The existence of the spiritual, non-corporeal beings that Sacred Scr...

We (or more accurately, he) packed up the tree and poinsettias to go back to the garage attic today. I had thought that since it is shedding...

This may be the all time favorite e-Christmas card going around. It's from 2004, but never gets old. One of the lists from my high scho...

About to go to press You would think a person who can churn out 5-6 blog posts a day, keep track of 11 blogs, and write other, non-web relat...

4618 What do you do with your old Christmas cards? I love the time between Thanksgiving and Epiphany--lots of first class mail as cards and...

Where do you display your Christmas cards? A survey at USAToday reported 46% on a table, 22% on the fireplace mantel, and 17% on a bookshe...

We've finished the Christmas cards! This year my computer failed the day after the night I printed out a draft of the letter and a list...