Big Gifts on Small Budgets
by Chrysa SmithA little over a century ago, O. Henry penned The Gift of the Magi. Of course, it's topical, because the story involves gift giving, true love and being cash poor.Interesting that it took about a hundred years for so many of us to understand, perhaps for the first time in a long time, what it's like to be faced with holiday gift-giving, on a more limited budget for the masses. Bah [...]
Magnificent Indeed
by Chrysa SmithQuick! Get thee to some culture!That's my cry after too many cold nights curled up on the couch with the sorry tales that make up our daily news-- and some of the mindless entertainment that makes up my television viewing (except for SingOff, and reruns of Seinfeld, Two and a Half Men, Spin City and Just Shoot Me). So it was with great delight and quick action that I sprang for [...]
The Twelve Days of the Season
A Middle Aged Woman Laughs at Her Version of Christmas CarolsBy: Mary Fran BontempoI swear every year that I’m going to cut back, reign in the insanity and not partake in any of the madness, but who are we kidding here? I’m the mom, and despite the fact that my kids are in every way legally adults, if I don’t reenact every stupid tradition I ever started, if the house isn’t decorated with [...]
Laughing @ Middle Age, a Cartoon by Pat Achilles
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And Becquer is. . .
Prince Caspian If you are a fan of the beloved C. S. Lewis's fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia and have watched the third movie in the series: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader over the last week, you have probably recognized the young man that impersonates King Caspian as the face of Becquer in my previous post "Who is Becquer?" And so the answer to the question is... [...]