THE 13 CHRISTMAS LADS
A few years back, Grace and I visited Iceland two weeks before Christmas. (Note: Iceland this time of year is for night owls. Sunrise is...
WORST CHRISTMAS GIFTS EVER
I am a committed Christmas traditionalist. I love all of it...the carols, the decorations, the church service, the gift giving. As to the...
CHRISTMAS CHILLS
As a child, I went to bed Christmas Eve filled with excitement over Santa's imminent, and certain, arrival. As I got older, the deeper...
CRUEL AND UNUSUAL CHRISTMAS PUNISHMENT
Help! I am being forced by my wife to sit through the series of holiday movies on the Hallmark-Lifetime-Great American Family channels....
JESUS HAS GOT SOME NERVE
Somewhere in there was only one song that stood out as apart from the others: Josh Groban's O Holy Night. While that may have...
LOST CHRISTMAS TRADITIONS
We all have our holiday traditions. One of ours was the annual reading to the children of 'Twas the Night Before Christmas. Thinking...
HAPPY 25th OF THE TWELFTH
You don't have to be overly observant to see the PC police are working overtime to stamp out any signs of religion in the "holiday"...
IN DEFENSE OF CANDACE CAMERON BURE
We are approaching the time of year where we commemorate the coming of the Redeemer. I despair however that we are beyond redemption. The...
A BAD PEACE
Tacitus wrote that "a bad peace is worse than war," something that should be guiding US policy as regards the Ukrainian conflict. While...
A COVID CHRISTMAS
A short story by Kenneth T. Zemsky:
An old man befriends a peculiar little girl, who teaches him that in times of distress miracles happen.