Best wishes for a happy, healthy and peaceful 2003 to everyone in our group. Welcome to our new members. It's 76 degrees - I'm going to the beach. Bill...
I grew up in a Muslim family, so when I was little, Christmas wasn't on our calendar. My parents, immigrants from Pakistan, knew about colored lights, ...
Now that I'm a parent, I finally understand that Christmas is really for our children. It is a time to revel in the company of cousins, aunts, uncles and...
Festive snow is a bit thin on the ground these days, but Len Fisher offers a possible solution: White Christmases are becoming thinner on the ground. The slide...
I envy Icelandic parents. During the 13 days leading up to the 24th, they have the ultimate weapon over their children: the Jólaskór, which is as all...
With yesterday's annual lighting of the Oslo Christmas tree in downtown Reykjavík, the Christmas season has officially begun in Iceland. (Since we here at...
It's hard to believe, but the holiday season is now basically over. This was my second time staying in Iceland for Christmas and I have to say it was quite...
There are some splendid narrative scenes of Christmas celebrations, the best known probably being the story of the Cratchit family's Christmas, and the story...
While Russian Orthodox Christmas falls on January 7, many churches and organizations in Vladivostok will celebrate Western Christmas on December 25. St. Paul's...
What is it about Christmas and mice? From the famous poem to the crowded shelves of gift shops, mice are associated with Christmas more than reindeer. Of...
Advent is my favorite time of year, for all the conventional reasons, and Christmas music is for me an essential part of it. I listen to it as much as possible...
You could take in a holiday matinee, shoot the breeze with shopkeepers and spend less than $100 on Christmas presents. Still, you couldn't find a parking spot....
A good Christmas story bears repeating. Think It's a Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th Street, A Christmas Carol. Think Charlie's Apocalyptic Christmas. That...
HAVANA - Despite government's efforts to rein in Santa Claus, people seeking food, gifts and trees jammed the shops on Tuesday in a last- minute buying spree...
A foolish argument over burnt biscuits left Andrew Martin in sole charge of his family's celebrations. And as soon as he started shopping, he realised that he...
KILLINGLY, Connecticut -- For 35 years, Mervin Whipple has personally greeted -- and counted -- some 1.4 million visitors from all over the country to his...
There are those of us who appreciate Christmas decorations but do little, if anything, to spread the holiday cheer. We prop up a tree, string up some drugstore...
The first impression of "White Christmas" is motion. Leaning gently forward, unencumbered, each phrase is in perfect balance with the others, as if a hidden...
Once Christmas is over and the ornaments have been packed away, you would think - rightly - that the Christmas tree would be next to go. Its moment of glory...
It wasn't exactly the three kings bearing frankincense and myrrh to a manger, but the three Suffolk County legislators who arrived in a convoy of SUVs laden...
Viviana Rivas and Anita Torres stood on each side of the kitchen table. Each held a spoon in her right hand and in the palm of her left hand lay an hoja, or...
Christmas Day 1966 - my first Christmas in Turkey. I was married and had a small child. We were quite poor then, and our home was a two- room, cold-water flat....
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Christianity has tamed and muted a story that is both radical and revolutionary, wrapped it in swaddling clothes and laid it in a manger. So...
It's easy to make a friend. It's harder to make a stranger. But somehow over the years we manage to do it. I even have a written record. It is the collection...
Christmas editorial published Dec. 25, 2002 in the Minneapolis Star- Tribune Not much has changed in 2,000 years. The poor are still with us; the hungry still...
The Christmas story -- gospel truth to believers, a beautiful myth to others -- is built around the baby Jesus who was to grow up to be the savior of mankind....
Almost everyone is acquainted with Clement Clarke Moore's delightful seasonal poem, "A Visit From St. Nicholas," which he wrote as a Christmas present for his...
Feeling an urge to shower family and friends with holiday gifts? There might be more behind it than just the season of giving. Inside the stores, your psyche...
SCOTTVILLE, Illinois - On Christmas Day, Henry Ruyle got up and did what he's done every Christmas since 1927. He donned a Santa outfit, packed a bag full of...
The first holiday decorations to go up around New York City this season were menorahs - menorahs in just about every business window whether Jewish-,...
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