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Category Archives: Holidays
I Want to Found a New National Holiday
I want to start a new national holiday. I started it in my own family when our children were young. It is called March Forth and it’s a holiday based on a pun. Today is March Fourth but pun-wise it … Continue reading
Posted in Holidays, Humor, Living Literarily, Word Play
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March Fourth? March Forth!
Click for a soundtrack to this post: Washington Post March Once again March 4 is here. I still get pleasure, probably a little childish, saying to people, “Today is my favorite day of the year.” I enjoy springing my … Continue reading
Posted in Holidays, Life, Word Play
Tagged cucmber day, March 4th, March forth, March fourth, pun
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Words For The Fun Of It in 2012
Been making plans for me and words for this new year. Looking forward to another word-esque, word-filled, wordified 12 months. I’m writing these down in this public place to give them more oomph. It’s why I’m trying to make them … Continue reading
Posted in Holidays, Living Literarily
Tagged goals, literary goals, literary life, new years resolution, Words
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Oh Little Town of Bethlehem
(December 2004) Hello from Jerusalem, Oh little town of Bethlehem, How still we see thee lie, Actually the whole adventure started with me. Early in December I was chatting with the number-two person in our office here, lamenting that we … Continue reading
Three Things (plus 1) I Read Every Christmas
Every year around Christmas I read at least three things, each year revisiting works that are among my favorites. A Christmas Carol – This isn’t a novel but just a longish story. I only say this to encourage everyone … Continue reading
Posted in Holidays, Living Literarily, Reading
Tagged Christmas, Dickens, Dylan Thomas, O.Henry, Samuel Clement Moore
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Before Christmas this Year I Loved You Once Again
I walked into the house This day, ten days before Christmas. You, your friends, Handel-ing the season at the Concert Hall Me, starting to pack our van, the holiday mobile we will drive to this year’s Noel near the Hudson. … Continue reading
Posted in Holidays, Original Poems
Tagged Christmas, love, origianl poem, poem, poetry
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The Pun Method of Teaching Christmas Carols
Walking the other day through the awesomely ugly yet somehow festive-this-time-of-year halls of the acres long, deep and wide building where I work, I was singing Christmas carols under my breath, blithely anticipating the holiday almost upon us. I got to, … Continue reading
Posted in Devotion, Holidays, Word Play
Tagged carols, Christmas, Oh Come All Ye Faithful, puns
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Jesus Christ the Apple Tree
Anonymous (Early American) The tree of life my soul hath seen Laden with fruit and always green The tree of life my soul hath seen Laden with fruit and always green The trees of nature fruitless be Compared with Christ … Continue reading
Posted in Holidays, Poems Memorized
Tagged Ancient hymn, Christmas, Jesus Christ the Apple Tree
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Mother’s Day Poem
Happy Mother’s Day to my own sweetie A momma I helped you become, As a wife and a mother You’re surpassed by no other, In fact, dear, you are quite the plum! I wish we could go to Tahiti A … Continue reading
Cucumber Day
On March fourth, I explained why it’s my favorite day of the year. It’s the only one in which the date itself makes a sentence. March forth! I commented that it was a day for bold and decisive action based on the date’s pun. … Continue reading
Posted in Holidays, Word Play
Tagged cucumber, cucumber day, five two, Literarylee can't let this go, made-up holiday, pun, word play
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