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…

#4 and #5 Daughters (the amazing Sara Marian and daughter-from-another … um … set of parents, Dora) decorated for Christmas for me. I don’t dare put up a Christmas tree because Chickie, but they used their ingenuity to turn the antenna Charlie made for the…