The Christmas decorations are all down and boxed up, waiting to go back into the attic.  My living room looks bare without the enormous tr...

D’Artagnan is now a little too chunky to climb the TV armoire like he did last year , so here he is standing guard over the new artificial...

Yesterday my UMW circle held our traditional Christmas potluck dinner. I had signed up to make scalloped potatoes, but decided to make a s...

Why do the Swarovski people put six inch long ribbon loops on their crystal Christmas angels? And why don't I just cut the loop...

My son spends Christmas Eve with his dad and stepmother’s family when he is in town. His stepmother’s family has a large Christmas Eve fam...

Yesterday was supposed to be a happy day. My son was due to come home from London to spend a week with us before flying to Paris to spend ...

When the Wise Men traveled to Bethlehem, they brought along a cat, who gave the infant in the stable the gift of comforting purrs.

My husband wanted a hammer drill for Christmas, specifically, a DeWalt hammer drill, not cordless, that Lowe’s had for a good price. We do...

My husband’s Uncle Jack died early Monday morning. He was the husband of John’s father’s younger sister, whom I met once when we stayed at...

Truffle is a warm and friendly cat with me. He is especially warm and friendly when everything is going his way: when I feed him his treat...

When I am daydreaming about Christmas treats, one of my favorite daydreams is that someday I will be able to hire a floral designer t...

Wrapping In packages of tinsel flimsy Hopes that this will be the one time the children Cease their quarrels, And wrapping, in s...

Christmas letters have a bad reputation. Miss Manners does not like them, many readers of the old Ann Landers and Dear Abby advice columns...

Yesterday one of my coworkers gave all of us tree ornaments she made - reindeer made from wine corks. I usually love homemade tree ornaments...