Christmas is for Children

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BITS & PIECES

May 30, 2023

Sunday gatherings at my grandma Ethel and granddad Jim McGuire's home always meant a full house of not less than 50 people for dinner. After hours of cooking by the women, the big, long, oilclothcovered kitchen table was ready for supper to begin. Gr

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Two Houses: A Lifetime Of Memories

Nov 10, 2023

Some brick walls you smash down and some you don’t. My present project is more a pile of bricks, that I’ve been trying to erect as a viable structure to complete a small but irritating part of our family story. This regular breaking down and building

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December Special

Nov 3, 2022

It’s time – the build up to the festivities is well and truly underway! There is a hustle and bustle on the streets, too. With everyone rushing around with lists in hand that can only mean one thing – it’s December! There is a lot to be excited for t

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Their Fave (fake) Rich Auntie

Dec 14, 2020

The wonders of Christmas on the Cape Flats are wrapped in big bows we call our family. This is an expensive present you get to enjoy for most of the year with love, as your cousins remain your best and closest friends for most of your life. Although

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Mary Had a Little Turkey

Nov 1, 2022

text © 2022 by Greta Burroughs WHEN YOU THINK about Thanksgiving, what’s the first thing that comes to mind: food, football, parades? How about lambs? What do lambs have to do with Thanksgiving? The connection between the two is the poem “Mary Had a

Woman

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On The BEST Day Of CHRISTMAS

Dec 1, 2020

Anstey Harris lives in Kent. For me, Christmas Eve is about the stockings: the anticipation of that weight on your covers when you wake up; that woollen crunch as you move your legs. For us, everything in the stocking is wrapped except the walnuts,

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Tuesday, December 26

Oct 14, 2023

ON THE DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS last year, my husband and I caravanned with our daughter and grandkids across several states to spend a week at their house. On the way, my daughter, Holly, announced she planned to listen to all the Christmas music and wat

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Chat Come On In!

Dec 1, 2022

Christmas is all about family, and this year it feels a little more special than ever. For many, this may be the first Christmas that we’ve spent with our loved ones since the pandemic. As we open gifts and celebrate the festivities, we’ll remember a

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Welcome

Oct 19, 2022

Growing up, I barely knew what Halloween was. In the ‘70s it was largely an American ‘thing’. And as The Brady Bunch, which was my guide to everything American, never did a Halloween episode, it didn’t figure in my life. Several decades on and it wou

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The BEST Day Of CHRISTMAS

Oct 24, 2019

For me, Christmas Eve is about the stockings: the anticipation of that weight on your covers when you wake up; that woollen crunch as you move your legs. Everything in our stockings is wrapped except the walnuts, apple and satsuma that mark the end o

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Picture THIS

Oct 3, 2023

SKIING GIANT HILL Submitted by Michele Ivy Davis of Escondido, Calif. When Michele was about 7, her parents bought her a pair of short skis that strapped over her rubber boots. After a few tumbles, Michele was able to whiz down the “giant” hill in fr

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Christmas Q&A with K‘Lee

Dec 7, 2020

WHAT’S YOUR FAVOURITE HOLIDAY TRADITION? Christmas Eve lunch/dinner. It’s the one time we can all catch up as a whānau to eat, watch the kids play and just celebrate the year and all that’s happened. FAVOURITE CHRISTMAS SONG? LEAST FAVOURITE? I love

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Dad’s Fair Share

Jul 1, 2022

Men who have been so busy yapping for centuries about woman’s place in the home seem to have quite forgotten that they also have something to do with a home and a family as well. When John Doe was preparing himself to be a wage earner in his 16-odd y

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'The Yellow House' Connects Place, Memory And Self-Knowledge

Aug 13, 2019

Sarah Broom's childhood house is the fulcrum for her memoir about her large and complex family. But perhaps more important, it stands in for the countless ways America has failed African Americans.

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A Year With Granny: A Lifetime of Memories

Aug 1, 2023

In the winter of 1964, we packed up our belongings and moved from our home in Abilene, Texas, to Granny’s house in Gadsden, Ala. Melanie, the oldest, was 9; Jim, the baby, was 3; at 6, I had the “honor” of being the kid in the middle. Our lovely moth

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Christmas with the stars It’s Going To Be A Cracker!

Nov 27, 2023

It’s been looking a lot like Christmas in Melissa Chan-Green’s home since, well, the first weekend of November. It wasn’t entirely intentional, though. Her four-year-old son Busby was sick, so the popular AM host seized the opportunity to crank up th