The Doll My mother is impossible to shop for. She always buys for herself whatever she needs; Christmas, birthdays, or Mother’s Day be damned. We poor gift-givers are usually stranded without a clue about what to give her. Desperate and at a total loss one Christmas, I wandered among fellow clueless shoppers on my quest [...]
MERRY CHRISTMAS! What did Santa bring me this Christmas? A cold, that’s what. I woke up on Christmas Day with the sore throat from Hell. As if that wasn’t bad enough, the nose works started shortly thereafter, then the fever and aches. Ah… what a great way to spend Christmas Day! I’m not really complaining, [...]
Can you feel it? Are you in the spirit of the season? ‘Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house… well, you know how that one goes, right? Listen closely now. Can you hear it. Can you hear the sleigh bells off in the distance? Can you hear Santa… Ho! Ho! Ho! Try [...]
A couple friends sent this video to me in a Christmas ecard today. I liked it so much that I’m posting it here for everyone to enjoy. Thank you, Phil and Sam! Enjoy! ~Eric
There hadn’t been a Christmas tree set up in my house in years, not since about ’91, when a then girlfriend talked me into it. About nine years later, in ’98, when my mom was living with me, I was walking through a neighborhood drugstore looking for something when I turned the corner into an [...]
