Last-Minute Gift Ideas

With just a few days left until Christmas, you may be frantically searching for some last-minute gift ideas. Our writers got together to share a few of ours. Favorite Things – I have some friends that I’ve been giving gifts to for a long time and after many years of...

Mismatched Silverware

At Christmas time I love to decorate, and cook, and be creative! I’m really not into it at any other time of the year but at Christmas, it’s the season when all the details make a difference — or so I thought. It’s been my goal that my house and home would look...

Let Your Yes Be Yes

It’s almost Christmas, the most wonderful time of the year! So how is it that on one Christmas Day I ended up crying on the floor of an I-94 rest stop bathroom? I was the Goldilocks of Christmas until I learned to say “no.” This Christmas is Much Too Hard It seems...

A Christmas Memory

She was such a tiny woman, even from my child-sized estimation. Josie had beautiful, ancient Native American skin that was more wrinkled than any other skin I had ever seen. She wore her long brown hair (sprinkled with gray) in braids, and wore glasses that were...