What I never Knew About Jimmy Stewart
For all the fans of “It’s A Wonderful Life” and Jimmy Stewart . . . Just months after winning his 1941 Academy Award for best…
CHUFFIN’ CHRISTMAS
I’m up a chuffin’ ladder, fixing chuffin’ fairy lights. Me ‘ands are chuffin freezin’, and I’m scared of chuffin’ heights. It’s the same each chuffin’…
CHRIST WAS LOVE.
Each December, I vowed to make Christmas a calm and peaceful experience. I had cut back on nonessential obligations – extensive card writing, endless baking,…
The American Soldier Standing Guard At Christmas.
A POEM: THE AMERICAN SOLDIER STANDING GUARD AT CHRISTMAS 12-24-2010 3:22 pm – An American The embers glowed softly, and in their dim light, I…
The Tablecloth
At Christmastime, men and women everywhere gather in their churches to wonder anew at the greatest miracle the world has ever known. But the story…
KEEP ON SINGING
Like any good mother, when Karen found out that another baby was on the way, she did what she could to help her 3-year-old son,…
MEAN MOM
I had the meanest mother in the whole world. While other kids ate candy for breakfast, I had to have cereal, eggs or toast. When…
When you thought I wasn’t looking.
A message every adult should read, because children are watching you and doing as you do, not as you say. When you thought I wasn’t…
A Soldier Died Today.
He was getting old and paunchy and his hair was falling fast, And he sat around the Legion, telling stories of the past. Of a…
THE GIFT OF FORGIVENESS-CHRISTMAS STORY.
The Christmas of 1949 we didn’t have a tree. My dad had as much pride as anybody, I suppose, so he wouldn’t just say that…