Charles Dicken’s classic celebrates the hospitality, and generousity of spirit Scrooge finds following his Christmas Eve adventure with the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future. He is a man changed. God Bless us, Everyone. Stave 5 is perhaps my favorite Christmas reading of all. Stave 5 Yes! and the bedpost was his own. The […]
This sobering tale by Hans Christian Anderson tells of both the cruelty of the world and the hope of mankind. A must read at the holidays or anytime to remind us to care for others. Most terribly cold it was; it snowed, and was nearly quite dark, and evening– the last evening of the year. In […]
by Hans Christian Andersen. Out in the woods stood such a pretty little fir tree. It grew in a good place, where it had plenty of sun and plenty of fresh air. Around it stood many tall comrades, both fir trees and pines. The little fir tree was in a headlong hurry to grow up. […]
The Gift Of The Magi by O. Henry One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one’s cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such […]
Yes, Virginia … Editorial of The New York Sun, 1897 Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s […]
In 1822, Clement Clarke Moore a wrote the poem Twas the night before Christmas also called “A Visit from St. Nicholas.”
Simple Gifts 