Rarely, if ever, has the behavior of Santa’s reindeer prior to Rudolph’s first big Christmas Eve leadership role been unapologetically subjected to cultural criticism. Indeed, the whole matter has been routinely sugar-coated. I call foul. In a...
At Christmastime I should keep in my pockets a few red and green Santa Clause ornaments. I would know what must be done when I came upon trees decorated fastidiously in non-Christmassy color schemes. The following trees can offend the Christmas...
I can’t go home. I am down the street at Ragin Cajun watching a couple of football games – Rams-Bills and Bucs-Panthers – and I can’t go home. Because I have ruined Christmas. I have failed in a way more inexplicable, more devastating, than...
Since this is our first cool weekend of this season in Houston, I am making chili. The weather finally has dropped out of the 80s and into the 50s. Not exactly a Nor’easter. Not exactly maple harvest time in Vermont. Our fields have none of those...
I’m downstairs in the big, empty club room of our apartment building reading at my favorite table by a 10-foot Christmas tree. The tree is green, lights tiny and white, ornaments silver and blue. The book I am reading interests me, but I can’t...
I grew up in the Midwest, with real winters. I don’t miss shoveling snow, trudging mini-mountains of sludge or wading slush. Snow plows scraped up and down our street and past our driveway, installing hard-packed barricades of misery and...
Aunt Martha and Uncle Charles in Tallahassee have not felt up to the task of stringing lights on their fresh Christmas tree, which you can smell throughout the small house. Since Lisa and I are visiting them we are happily doing that holiday...
In the small, Southeast Louisiana town of Slidell, located on Lake Pontchartrain about 20 miles northeast of New Orleans, I discovered an Easter tradition unique to this region , , ,
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