Weekly Gratitude, Christmas Edition

I have quite a bit to be grateful for this week, most especially for Christmas, my absolute favorite time of year. I’m also grateful for… The opportunity to spend quality time during the holidays with my extended family and to once again have an upstate New York Christmas; The chance to meet up with my [...]

Quotable Christmas – The Answers

Merry Christmas! Here are the answers to last week’s movie quotes quiz. I hope you all have a wonderful and joyful holiday. 1. Hocus-Pocus explained the situation to Santa, who as you know, speaks fluent rabbit.Answer: The narrator in “Frosty the Snowman” 2. Seeing is believing, but sometimes the most real things in the world [...]

Dark Into Light

Thanks to my parents, I had a bit of an unconventional childhood. While my mother carted my brother and I to Sunday Mass and CCD classes, my father and stepmother introduced us to the teachings of Buddhist monks, Unitarian Universalist churches and, in December, the celebration of the Winter Solstice. Today marks the winter solstice [...]