Merry Christmas!Joyeux Noel! photo: 19th century, hand painted, theatrical angels for the nativity scene.

                      After telling Chelsea, (who was four at the time,) the story of Jesus, Mary and Joseph…of their long travel, the ride on the donkey…and when they arrived there was no room in…

                         One of my Mother’s clever tools of disciplining, my four brothers and I as children, was telling us that the birds that sat on the telephone wires were Santa’s helpers. During…

                         The first time I gazed into the eyes of my daughter, I sensed that she had been in a place I search for, that she had been looking into the eyes…

                            "What I would like for Christmas," Sacha said, "Are bike gloves, the kind that do not have a Velcro strap and have leather around the fingers…you know Mom it would…

                         Lamb’s wool Star light Cotton A moth’s wing Egg shell Porcelain A cloud floating by Chalk Foam of the wave Mother’s milk. Photo: A butterfly takes a nap on a lamb’s…