Window Over The Sink

by Meryl Brown Tobin Holidays are important for anyone. They get you away from everyday concerns and allow you to disconnect, unwind, relax and refresh. Unplugging and focusing on what you want to do––travelling, beachcombing, bushwalking or whatever––is good for your mental health, stops you feeling overwhelmed, improves sleep, as does increased physical activity. According to research, spending time in natural environments, as I do, is especially good for your brain.  As a

by Donna Cronk I’m not talking about a holiday table where everyone talks at once, anticipating the turkey and dressing. The family members filling my dining room table of late came from afar: from not only the previous century but the one before that.  They were around when horses and buggies were the only local public transportation. They butchered their own meat, raised their own chickens, and the ladies wore long-sleeved floor-length dresses daily as they canned food and

by Lori Matsourani December is here, ringing in the holiday season and, for me, the busiest time of year! Putting up decorations, scouting out gift ideas, planning holiday get-togethers, pulling out everyone’s favorite recipes, scouring Kroger and H-E-B for the ingredients I need for all the requested holiday dishes, and then baking a cornucopia of holiday treats. As I rifled through my holiday files (that makes me sound extremely organized; but don’t be fooled, I’m really no

by M.J. Schiller Thanksgiving is barely in our rearview mirror. In fact, some of us may still be full from our turkey dinner. But, let’s face it, the stores have been pushing Christmas since shortly after the 4 th  of July. Okay, that might be a slight exaggeration, but...  What makes your house Christmassy? Is it the smell of cookies baking wafting from the kitchen and swirling about the fragrance of pine needles in the living room? Is it the sight of that snowman that your

Quite honestly, I'm not sure when I wrote this, so if you've read it too recently to like reading it again, my apologies. The greatest gifts...the greatest reasons for Thanksgiving...are the people in our lives, and I'm so grateful for Aunt Nellie. She gave more richness to my life than I can ever explain. I'm posting today because tomorrow will start the annual Window Holidays Project, when I'll have a guest blogger every day I could get one between now and New Year's. I hop

by Kyra Jacobs But last week I was on my way to work and drove into a fog so thick I feared for a few miles that I would miss my exit...

by Nancy Fraser Having just experienced my seventy-fifth Christmas, I’m willing to admit… I don’t remember much about the first one....

by Marla White The other day, a friend asked me if I loved Christmas so much because of the nostalgia of it all, the memories it evokes...

Good morning, and Merry Christmas. It's quiet here, with our family scattered and likely still asleep in their own homes. Even the cats...

by Nan Reinhardt Husband and I went Christmas shopping yesterday, something we haven’t done together in a long time. Usually, I’m the...

by Jennifer Wilck Hanukkah, the Jewish holiday celebrating the miracle of the oil and the rededication of the Second Temple after the...

by Charley Sutton Holidays in my youth run together sometimes. I head down memory lane to look for that special moment and end up...

by D. V. Stone My husband does The 25 Songs of Christmas on Facebook from December 1st to December 25th. He has 285 Christmas albums to...

by Beth Carpenter It’s Christmas season again. Isn’t it funny how every year, there’s someone to tell you you’re doing it wrong? You...

by Holly Jacobs The holidays are a time for family, for joy, for…Hope.   I spent a week online talking about Hope. I used to say I was an...