Dec 18 2010

A Recipe For Christmas

A Treasured Christmas Card

by: Catherine Jackson

My friend’s mother reached out to me one difficult year and gave me a Christmas card I cherish. She celebrates Chanukah but we have long shared in each other’s families and traditions and she knows me well. Nevertheless, choosing a Christmas card when Christmas is not your holiday is not, I would imagine, an easy undertaking. The range in options is extraordinary - from the glitzy to the somber and religious, to the downright tacky.  The Christmas card she chose to give to me was perfect, and says everything I treasure about this season.

Dec 13 2010

'Tis The Season For OMGing

Giving Gifts with Meaning

by: Catherine Jackson

Amidst all the decking of the halls

Dec 1 2010

Bookish Sugarplums

Top Five Family Christmas Books

by: Catherine Jackson

Every year the Christmas tree lights and decorations come up from the basement in the  same big square awkward box with my mother’s handwriting on top. Every year on epiphany, I re-pack it carefully and tie it with the same large ugly bow made of netting from a Christmas package past. Every year the last items put back into the box are the Christmas books.

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