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Slice-of-life blog by a freelance writer and improv performer balancing the girlish and geeky parts of her personality.
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Gratuitous Cuteness
I don’t generally post pictures of my dogs purely for the “awww” factor, but in this case, I have to. This is Pericles (Perry). He’s a long hair Chihuahua mix, and his fur feels like chenille. Earlier this evening, while Fuzz...
Other Verses: O Holy Night*
A thrill of hope the weary world rejoices, For yonder breaks a new and glorious morn. My favorite Christmas song changes from year to year. Two years ago, I couldn’t get the Kay Starr rendition of “The Man with the Bag” out of my ...
Gingerbread
“And I had but one penny in the world. Thou should’st have it to buy gingerbread.” – William Shakespeare, Love’s Labours Lost I just finished a text conversation in which TeenG and I made plans to bake gingerbread on Christmas Eve. ...
UnMagical
Just as plastic trees become objects of wonder just as they’re bedecked with fairy lights and ornaments, Christmas decorations, in general, become unmagical as soon as the Christmas season is over. For some, this change happens around the 6th o...
Christmas Eve (Part I): Always Room at Darmok’s Inn
One in the morning, and I’m sitting in the dark blogging, even though I have to be awake at 4:30. We have friends sleeping in the guest room. A packing glitch in San Jose stranded them in DFW for the night, and it would be wrong to make anyone ...
And There’s A Legal Limit to the Snow, Here
I meant to post this yesterday, but got sidetracked. Holidailies was asking for the ideal Christmas weather report the other day. I know this, because the prompt was my suggestion. My own ideal weather is sort of Camelot-esque. Not the actual Camelot...
A Tale of Two Churches
Well, not really a tale. We began and ended our day with church services today, and both were lovely, but vastly different. This morning, we were supposed to wake at 6:30, have time to shower, dress, drink coffee, and make it to the UU church in Oak ...
Wexford Carol
I don’t remember when Celtic Woman became part of my musical vernacular, but I know that I love their sound. Instead of a text post today, I offer this video, culled from YouTube, of their performance of the Wexford Carol. It’s a new fav...
Silent Night
On a foggy, cold December morning, it seems appropriate to look back into childhood. Here are John Denver and the Muppets sharing their interpretation of “Silent Night.”...
Indistinguishable from Magic
A 2008 Best of Holidailies Selection. Thanks, Holidailies Reviewers! That’s the thing with magic. You’ve got to know it’s still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you. ~Charles DeLint The Cafe Writing Holiday Project asks us ...
Christmas Cheese Cheer
Sometimes there’s nothing more satisfying than cheesy Christmas movies. They’re a guilty pleasure for me, for my friend Ms. J., and even for my mother, who usually has nothing to do with commercial television. What I really want right now...
Dry Leaves and Electric Reindeer
This afternoon, as I was working upstairs in my writing studio, aka the Word Lounge, I kept getting distracted by the crisp autumn leaves being swirled about on the winds, like so many bits of plastic and paper in a kaleidoscope, waiting to be rearra...
Sing, Choirs of … UUs ?
What were the good parts? One was getting to sing a song that essentially called the quarters, right on the heels of a classic Allelulia, and just before an African processional piece with bongo drum accompaniment. I love this aspect of the Unitarian...
