Advent And Rethinking Christmas
Christmas often feels like the busiest and most stressful time of the year. What if there was another way...
Christmas often feels like the busiest and most stressful time of the year. What if there was another way...
As the leaves finish turning, the days become shorter and the winter lights start to appear on our streets,...
Lately I’ve been starting my music projects by digging around for one sounds that would set the mood for...
This is Advent Sunday. After today there are only three Sundays left before Christmas. Although Advent is not as...
Christmas begins tonight in our household. We share a Christmas dinner, say some prayers, open presents, tell stories, and...
Bored by Christmas already? Frustrated that the decorations, food and “Christmas Specials” seem to arrive earlier and earlier every...
Today, in lieu of a regular post, I’d like to offer you Robert Frost’s 1920 poem, Christmas Trees. Regardless...
“Each winter as the year grows older we each grow older, too. The chill sets in a little colder;...
The link escapes me right now, but I recall reading an idea someone had recently, to photograph Christmas trees,...
Christmas is well and truly over. Well up to a point. Not all the decorations are away, I’m not...
For many arrangers and musicians, the end of summer marks the time to start pulling those Christmas songbooks out...
In the past couple of months some excellent bloggers have linked to this site. Here’s a selection, Dress-Down Friday:...
“When Jesus was born in the village of Bethlehem in Judea, Herod was king. During this time some wise...
And in despair I bowed my head “There is no peace on earth,” I said, “For hate is strong...
For me, one of the most fascinating things about Obama’s election is that the US has chosen as it’s...
The way we respond to the commercialisation of Christmas often says more about us than it does about the...