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Echoes of the Year

The number of the new year always has a little magic in it for me, at least until I get to the point of entering

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Welcoming Life in the New Year

This Christmas break I finally watched the movie Inside Out. I imagine this movie is old news for most readers, but I have a toddler and

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Ten Things Christmas-y

Christmas—so much to mock, so little time. For most of December, I carry that outlook. Now, in these quiet, unhurried days of Christmastide, my cynicism

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Time to Rejoice

by Brian Keepers When our oldest daughter Emma was a toddler, we bought a Fisher-Price Nativity Set. Every year we’d pull it out and set

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The First Sunday of Christmas

For a child has been born for us, a son given to us; authority rests upon his shoulders; and he is named Wonderful Counselor, Mighty

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Rejected Christmas Carols

If the joy of Christmas ever breaks through the frenzy of event-going and present-wrangling and (for me) end-of-semester grading, it happens through music. This year,

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Thy Will Be Done

She holds this single dream. She remembers life in Amherst, before her husband caught a madman’s urge to go west and start a new life

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Home for Christmas

What do you believe about Christmas?   I mean in your core, your heart, soul, the marrow of your being, what does Christmas mean to

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