Tag: Christmas
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Conspiracy of Love
“Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.” Hamilton Wright Mabie Merry Christmas everyone! Hold tight to the things that matter in this coming year, and you will certainly find peace and happiness. Shot with Nikon D700 and a 50mm/1.4 lens. ISO 2500; 1/40 (handheld); f2. Slight color correction…
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Diary of a Bad Writer: Merry Christmas
And while many of us will sing this hymn during the Christmas season, you may not know that the words “merry” and “rest” had very different meanings in mid-1700s England when the song was written.
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Skipping Christmas by John Grisham
John Grisham has world-wide acclaim as one of the best legal thriller authors in America, but that didn’t stop him from a slight derailment into – can we call it – comedy.
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Merry Christmas
Remember the movie Scrooged with Bill Murry? Such an awesome retelling of one of the best Christmas stories of all time! And the greatest moment of the movie is when Bill Murry’s character finally gets it. It may not be a Charles Dickens tear-inducing Tiny Tim moment, but stay with me…here’s what he yells in…
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Diary of a Bad Writer: Holiday Songs Take Center Stage
The media has honed in on holiday songs this year, specifically Baby It’s Cold Outside. But the Washington Post took a satirical jab at one of Christmas’s most, if not beloved, well-sung songs – The Little Drummer Boy. It is interesting the writer talks of the little drummer boy as an annoying party-crasher who showed…
Peace In The Margins 