#4 Daughter, the amazing Sara Marian, did solstice nails this week, including a couple with reindeer in the snow. So this male friend of hers looks at that and says: Who’s that? Solstice, the regular-nosed reindeer? This post is part of Linda G. Hill’s weekly…

First, people yesterday asked about the Christmas pickle, so here you go. This was posted on a website called whychristmas.com, which I totally would have recommended yesterday, if I had found it in time. SO COOL! Anyway: In the 1880s Woolworth stores started selling glass…

I watched The Man Who Invented Christmas for the first time this year. It’s about Charles Dickens and the writing of A Christmas Carol. Highly recommended, especially for fiction writers and for readers who want to know one take on how the writing process can…