Last night, I went with my family to my granddaughter’s Christmas Concert. What a privilege! Those young people are talented! And beautiful in their neat uniforms and shiny black shoes. They were also attentive. All eyes were on their director and they responded to every nuance in the music and the silent directions from his face […]
Dec 15, 2015
The Glow of the Memory Tree
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Each ornament on my Christmas tree has a story. Starting at the bottom, there’s the beautiful, hooked poinsettia tree skirt my sister Helen made years ago. When she gave it to me, she told me it wasn’t quite finished but I’ve looked at it for years and can’t see where anything else needs to […]
Dec 13, 2015
Christmas and A Wandering Heart
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One of my favorite Christmas stories for children is Mrs. Goose’s Wild Christmas. I think it’s out of print now. It was in an older Childcraft book years ago. Matt says I insisted on reading it to him when he was small although he didn’t particularly like it. It’s about two geese, a wild goose and a tame one, […]
Dec 12, 2015
Streeling into Saturday
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Sauntering, strolling, streeling–words that mean about the same but the last word is not heard much any more. In Grave Heritage, Flora uses the word and she and Darcy remember that Andy Tucker used to say that. None of the Cozy Critters who heard me read the passage from the book knew what it meant. […]
Dec 11, 2015
A Brand-New Buz
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This is the conclusion to my Fanciful Fox Fable. I hope you or your children or grandchildren have enjoyed the story of Buz who went to Bethlehem and was changed forever by the Baby in the manger. The little foot snuggled into the fur on Buz’s chest and stopped wriggling. “Look, he’s asleep,” someone said. “He’s […]
