Christmas is in the rear view mirror. In fact, Janet and I spent the week-end, with the help of our daughter Jill and grandson Drew, taking down the decorations. That's quite a job because we really decorate for Christmas and…
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Christmas 2019 is over. It's behind us now and I am already seeing the countdown to Christmas 2020. The buildup is always so great - and then it is over. Today, the sales were on, people where spending Christmas cash,…
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Back when I was five or six years old, I started helping my mother in the kitchen each Christmas season as she set about making her "famous" cranberry bread. She made loaves and loaves - and almost everyone we knew…
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We are getting close to the end of the year and for the last three years, I have been gradually reducing the work that I do with the thought that retirement is creeping up on me. I really don't think…
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When I sold parts of the company back in 2001, I moved my office into our home. Ever since that time, my office in our house has been my base of operations. Usually, I am out on the road and…
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Today, December 12, 2019, our oldest grandson, Connor, turned eighteen. I can't say that I never thought that this day would come - it's something that we have been looking forward to since Connor was born. In fact, I remember…
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I can't even begin to recount the number of times that I have read the Christmas story. While there is a short account in the book of Matthew, there is a much longer narrative written by the good doctor, Luke.…
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Have you ever played the What-If game? You know the game - you think about something and before you know it, you are down some deep rabbit hole considering all kinds of alternatives and things that could happen to you.…
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Our daughter, Kristin, and her family have made a decision to downsize their home and so several months ago their house went on the market and sold rather quickly. She and the rest of the family found another home that,…
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It's Thanksgiving Day, 2019. Andrew and I cooked one of our largest turkeys to date - 31# as it went into the oven this morning. This is the first Thanksgiving that all of our children have been present since Jill…
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