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Getting in the mood for Christmas… Old, recycled posts of the holiday season… part 8…

Some thoughts on the ‘war on Christmas’… There is no war on Christmas… It is a made-up thing… Stop acting like you are being persecuted because we want to include everybody. Nobody is really even telling you to say ‘happy … Continue reading

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Getting in the mood for Christmas… Old, recycled posts of the holiday season… part 7…

How about if one year, we try being NICE to each other and visit each other and buy presents for each other, and wear festive colors, and sing silly songs, and decorate things and hang colored lights for 11 months, … Continue reading

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Getting in the mood for Christmas… Old, recycled posts of the holiday season… part 6…

A poem… yeah, I know, many of you see the word ‘poem’ and you run screaming… but this one is funny… and it is about Christmas… and why I might be way too obsessed with this blogging thing… Family gathered for … Continue reading

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Getting in the mood for Christmas… Old, recycled posts of the holiday season… part 5…

Some thoughts on Christmas and Jesus by a guy who isn’t religious… I guess one thing that always bothers me about the new, more militant religious conservative Christians, is their complete failure to grasp the message that the person they … Continue reading

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Getting in the mood for Christmas… Old, recycled posts of the holiday season… part 4…

Some silly homemade Christmas ornaments and a Santa tiki… yeah, I said a Santa tiki… What, you don’t have a hand-carved Santa tiki??? Yeah, I have a Santa tiki… well, my wife does, because I gave it to her for … Continue reading

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Getting in the mood for Christmas… Old, recycled posts of the holiday season… part 3…

I hope you all get lots of booty for Christmas… uh… I mean plunder… yeah, let’s go with plunder… You know, treasure… pieces of eight… that kind of stuff…

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Getting in the mood for Christmas… Old, recycled posts of the holiday season… part 2…

Uh… Gadzookes wanted to say ‘merry Christmas’ again… Yes, that is the cover of one of my children’s books… which make a lovely Christmas gift for the little ones, and are available by clicking the pictures of the book in … Continue reading

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Getting in the mood for Christmas… Old, recycled posts of the holiday season… part 1…

T’was the night before the election, and all through my gut My last meal was stirring, and shooting straight out of my butt The pollsters had been certain Hillary would win it with ease Who would actually vote for that … Continue reading

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All I want for Christmas…

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Saying goodbye to my mom… no… she isn’t dead… we just left her in the Bay Area…

There she is, that feisty ninety-something-year-old… playing our antique player piano… the cardiovascular workout of the early 1900’s… with one of the tikis I carved for her looking on, bedecked in its Christmas finery! We spent our last night in … Continue reading

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