Tag: Christmas
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Christmas All Year
This post refers to Jesus, but don’t worry. The ideas apply to everyone, Christian or otherwise. Also, this is a long one, so grab your beverage of choice and a scone or a cookie. When it comes to the holidays, I’m all in. Decorations in every corner. A twelve-foot tree with hundreds of ornaments. Caloric […]
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Music soothes the savage…
“Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.” This is a no-brainer, right? Almost everyone I know listens to music to relax, but what is interesting is the different composition of each person’s playlist. I was talking with my older son’s fiancée yesterday about her affection for […]
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A Writer’s “Fabulous” Life
How does a busy working woman find time to write three novels? By letting a lot of things go so she can write. My family knows all about overflowing laundry baskets and dead plants (forgot to water). Since Christmas, I have been working to re-finish Maisie’s List and submit it to publisher, and I have […]
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With the Eyes of a Child
My goodness, I am redundant. I can see that every Christmas I make posts with the same theme, using the same references. Too bad. I am passionate about the topic, the stories, and Christmas, and that is all I have to say about that. All right boys and girls, are we too long away […]
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Love
My conversations with my boys have taken a more philosophical tone this year, and they have covered ideas from what it means to be human to the nature of truth. We agree on many things but on many others we do not. One thing we cannot agree on is the nature of love. They hold that […]
Beth Warstadt 