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This is the time of year I dread, musically speaking. I'm already pretty tired of most Christmas music after all these decades anyway, and it seems like you can't ever get away from it anymore. Starting sometime on the afternoon of Thanksgiving, every music station on the radio dial is popping one in about every 10 minutes...whether it's classic ( Read more... )

Christmas isn't really any fun this year. Older and divorced, with a 20 year old son with his own life, we didn't even decorate this year--no tree, no lights. Just a wreath on the door and a few Christmas cards over the fireplace. There's only about four hours a day that we're home together and awake, and no one is here to see decorations anyway. ( Read more... )

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Priest in Britain Advises Congregation to Shoplift

Monday, December 21, 2009
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There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. 
-Erma Bombeck

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveler, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and ( Read more... )