To The Manner Born

The holiday niceness has finally begun to take its toll. I feel a need to let loose my inner male, or at least give it a winter airing befo...

King Cake Not yet ready to pull the plug on the holidays, then try baking a King Cake. The practice of baking King Cakes during the holiday ...

I like you just the way you are. That is why I repeat this every January 1st. However, if you are hell bent on making New Years resolutions...

Since becoming a Scottish Laird last year I've had to brush up on my knowledge of local holiday customs. Nothing is more conspicuous ...

Nothing will take place on Friday, December 30, 2011 in Samoa. Historical records will not exist. Newspaper entries will not record the com...

I mentioned in a comment yesterday that Boxing Day would have been my father's 88th birthday. On his last birthday he was diagnosed with...

In between the childish parts of the holiday season and the more timorous adult happenings this weekend it is good to spend a moment remembe...

Biblical Bumper Stickers Adam: "You are what you eat." Eve: "At least he doesn't compare me to his mother." Abraham:...

Around 1990 an American seismologist Iben Browning predicted that a massive earthquake would occur in the Mississippi flood plain wreaking...

From The Jewish Magazine Chanukah Mailing A woman goes to the post office to buy stamps for her Chanukah cards. She says to th...

 Have you ever had exactly the wrong response to a present? I have. It is unfun, and I feel like a bounder. In the world of technology ...

Shalom

Esquire Magazine December 1963 For those unfamiliar with the story of Christmas here is a one minute thirty second explanation. Mer...

Xmas vrs. Chanukah Now, if anyone asks you what the difference is between Xmas and Chanukah, you will know what and how to answer! 1....

From our house to yours, Merry Christmas Toad and Mrs. T Photo shamelessly borrowed from Simply Seductive , who borrowed fr...

The Dedication   Now the Maccabees returned to Jerusalem to liberate it. They entered the Temple and cleared it of the idols placed ther...

Festivus celebrates being alive at a time when it is hard to be alive. Since mankind crawled out of the primordial soup, at this time of ye...

Shalom

Today marks the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere, summer if you are fortunate enough to be in the southern. For travelers in t...

First Blessing over the lighting of the candle... Blessed are you O L-rd our G-d, King of the universe, who has sanctified us throug...