Category Archives: Holidays

Essays and reflections on the doings and beings during holiday-times.

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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