Category: Christmas
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So, This Santa Walked into a Bar…
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A couple of weekends ago, my family (Mom, Dad, Sean) all went out for a night on the town. San Francisco is often amusing and amazing, especially during the holidays. That night, we headed to The Castro and what did we see roaming the streets? Big packs of Santas, making…
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Our Tree is Up! Pee-Wee Herman and Fun With Jesus
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It’s about midnight and we just finished vacuuming and finishing up the tree. This year, we looked around for something good to watch on TV while we were decorating, but alas! there was nothing Holiday-ish on. So, I gleefully put on Pee-Wee’s Christmas Special. Have you seen it? Sean first…
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O Holy Night
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My family has a long history in the Southwest, and the images of the desert are a familiar part of my past. As a small child, we would drive around the neighborhoods of town on Christmas Eve and one of my favorite parts was to see the luminaria along the…
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Lots of Twinkly Little Lights
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Our Christmas Tree is up and now somehow there are still cards to address and presents to wrap and food to be made. Yet amongst all this hurrying, I am reminded that it is the people that make these days special. And all days special. My wish to each of…
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How to Create a Homemade Ugly Christmas Sweater
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Year after year, this post gets a lot of visits – join in and learn how to create a homemade ugly Christmas sweater! Seeing as there has been a lot of love around this post, for Ugly Christmas Sweaters, I thought I’d give you all the step by step on…
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Tokyo at Night: The Seminarian Turns off the Billboards
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This last week at work, the CEO of Hulu came in to talk to us. We get to have lots of interesting folks come in and talk with us … but I have to say, Jason’s point of view and candid discussion about his company was really refreshing and dare…
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Card Making Brings Me Peace
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I imagine that most people have something they love to do, something that brings them joy, and something that fulfills a passion they have. Perhaps they can explain why they love it. Perhaps they have no idea why this thing has captured their heart. For me, one of these things…
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Company Holiday Party with Heart
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Last night was my company’s holiday party. Budgets had been slashed, and we knew oh way back three months ago that this shindig would be funded by less than a quarter of the funds they’d spent last year. But still, it was only natural for us to expect something like…
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Free Things to add Joy to the Season
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An acquaintance said an odd thing to me today. When I made mention that it seems that there is something in the air, a certain anxiety and perhaps anger in the world around us, he quickly dismissed it and said “It’s because we’re coming up on a Pink Elephant holiday.…