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The Twelve Days of Christmas
By
dhanny
I always thought “The twelve Days of Christmas” was just a goofy song to sing at Christmas time. What in the world do leaping lords and swimming swans have to do with Christmas? Then someone sent me this explanation for the song. The Catholics in England were not permitted to practice their faith openly from…
The Secret of Christmas
By
dhanny
We make Christmas to so many things that it is not. It can become the most frustrating time of the year instead of the most wonderful time of the year. But, Christmas isn’t candy canes and popcorn put on strings. It isn’t mounds of presents and twinkling lights on every tree in the neighborhood. Christmas…
A Loss Over The Holidays
By
dhanny
Losing someone you love is never an easy thing to bear, but it is even more difficult when it happens near the holidays. I lost my sister, my last sibling, last year a week before Thanksgiving. It was totally unexpected and all happened so fast. Actually, I was at the Cleveland Clinic having surgery the…
Too Much Family Fun
By
dhanny
This is Joshua and Jesse after their afternoon at the ice skating rink. They were “too pooped to participate”, in anything except a nice long nap. I think we all wanted to take a nap, but only the little ones were allowed this luxury. The only time these guys were quiet was when they were…
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