little girl, big city, red coat16 december 2007 Saturday we had this…a seven layer cake of snow, ice, snow, ice, snow, ice… Sunday we woke up to blue skies… …and lots more snow. We caroled on our way to church… …where we celebrated the third Sunday in Advent with those willing to venture out. We…
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two years already
This past weekend we were out of town again, this time celebrating the second birthday of E’s cousin – my sister’s little girl. Two years ago, as the time grew near for her to be born (and then grew past as the overdue days stacked up) I was still teaching a college class and was…
splendid dis-array
This is not our house. This is one of many houses on a street in an inner suburb that lights itself up from corner to corner in a spectacularly brilliant display of holiday lights. The street boasts its fair share of tacky inflatable winter wonderland snow globes and Santas perching precariously on the roof tops…