This essay was written with an eye towards helping some of my non-heathen friends and family understand what this crazy holiday is about...sorta. It's rough and rambling. I haven't written anything in a long time.
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Incipit gestis Rudolphi rangifer tarandus

Hwæt, Hrodulf readnosa hrandeor --
Næfde þæt nieten unsciende næsðyrlas!
Glitenode and gladode godlice nosgrisele.
Ða hofberendas mid huscwordum hine gehefigodon;
Nolden þa geneatas Hrodulf næftig
To gomene hraniscum geador ætsomne.
Þa in Cristesmæsseæfne stormigum clommum,
Halga Claus þæt gemunde to him ( Read more... )

This Saturday, we visited ( Read more... )

Give someone a goat this year! You'll be happy you did.

What a strange night/morning it’s been.

Our region got socked with some freezing rain last night - right around the evening commute time zone. I left a few minutes before 5:00 expecting it to be slow going. Sure enough, it was slooow and stop-n-go. I suspected I’d be getting home late.

What I didn’t expect was that my car would die on the road. ( Read more... )

This coming Friday, my wife is hosting another Partylite party. However, she was considerate enough to ask me "what would make this fun for you ( Read more... )