Keeping Christmas All The Year

Well, the Christmas presents are now opened. The music books with Christmas Carols are now back up on the shelves and the Christmas music on the radio has abruptly ceased. It is painfully obvious that Christmas is over!  I have never understood how these radio stations that go "all Christmas music" LONG before Thanksgiving, can … Continue reading Keeping Christmas All The Year

A holiday tradition since 1982 …..

"Marley was dead: to begin with" ... so begins the Dickens classic A Christmas Carol.  It was originally published on December 19, 1843 and the first edition was completely sold out by Christmas Eve (that's less than a week!). This was not Dickens' first Christmas story.  As a matter of fact, he had written three … Continue reading A holiday tradition since 1982 …..

Let’s Take a Quiz and Thank a Teacher … or two.

The following “quiz” has been published in books and can be found all over the internet. It is attributed to the cartoonist Charles Schulz, who drew Snoopy and Charlie Brown for many years. An inquiry to the Charles Schulz Museum has proven that the quiz is NOT something he said, however, it does make an … Continue reading Let’s Take a Quiz and Thank a Teacher … or two.