The First Christmas I Remember Our 1940 Christmas holiday marked the end of an era—a beautiful era. I’m sure this Christmas Eve was not much different from every previous Christmas Eve of my life (except for the real live Santa), it’s just the first one I remember. We lived in the Central Valley farmhouse my …
Monthly Archives: December 2023
Your Legacy
Have you ever looked at a genealogy chart—a “family tree”—and thought, every one of those people had a lifetime of stories: adventures and misadventures, jobs or professions, successes and failures, likes and dislikes, friends and lovers, et cetera. Yet chances are no one knows much, if anything, about them. All that remains is their name …
The Holidays
Thanksgiving is over and the winter holidays are upon us. In chronological order they are: December 7-15—Hannukah. (Jewish) On eight consecutive nights, Jews gather with family and friends to light one additional candle in the menorah candelabra to commemorate the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem in the 2nd century BC, after …