Post Views: 2,650 Do any of you find it fascinating, as I do, that many of the christmas traditions we know and love often cross that thin veil that separates […]
Winter
Post Views: 3,184 If Clement Clark Moore is primarily responsible for our literary description of Santa Claus with his poem T’was The Night Before Christmas. Thomas Nast is responsible for […]
Thomas Nast father of a Civil War Santa
Post Views: 3,476 Regular readers of my blog will know that I love the Halloween season. I also love bonfires. I always strive to find some odd fact every year […]
Bonfires are Bone Fires at Halloween
Post Views: 4,244 My thoughts on new year’s resolutions for the 2019/2020 new year, new decade all revolve around the idea of Karma, positivity and the realization that once you let […]
New Year 2020 new Decade
Post Views: 5,098 Traditional Christmas characters here in the United States are typically friendly. Think of the many incarnations of St. Nicholas. Iceland on the other hand is home to […]
Yule Cat Jólakötturin
Post Views: 4,763 As far back as I can remember my mother had always helped us decorate for the xmas holiday by taping up brightly colored art prints known as […]
Die Cut Decorations for Christmas
1 Post Views: 5,741 As a child growing up in the 1980’s, I was never shielded from the rampant consumerism this decade is well known for. The xmas holidays always conjure the […]
Hills is where the toys were
Post Views: 5,528 Yule is the original Norse-Germanic Pagan festival that marks todays Winter Solstice before it was replaced by the christian version of ‘christmas”. The lyric from “Deck the […]
Yule Never Believe this..because you were taught
Post Views: 5,069 Belsnickle is not Santa Claus. The Pennsylvania Dutch, who were not Dutch at all, but ”Deutsche”, or German, are credited with bringing many of their country’s Christmas […]
Belsnickle or Pelz-nickle is not Santa Claus
Post Views: 7,337 Modern Santa Claus is known to be an amalgam of influences, not the least of which is the Germanic god Odin. It is important to realize that there […]
Mōdraniht – Mothers Night
Post Views: 3,778 January really creeps me out. I am not sure I know why, but I think it has something to do with the cold, rain, shortness of the […]
January, the Super Creepy Month.
1 Post Views: 4,860 Just to weigh in on this craziness floating around the internet. I think Santa is a nice fantasy for kids. Just like the easter bunny and the […]