To The Manner Born

As Barry Manilow sang, it looks like we've made it.  We've lived to celebrate Hogmany once again. Hogmany is the Scottish en...

Friday night was the highlight of the Mayberry social season.  The Veiled Prophet once again returned to town with the Queen of Love and ...

One of the givens in life is that the farther responsibility for payment lands from the buyer of a product or service the higher the fin...

I prefer to celebrate Christmas on Santa's good boy list, while knowing who and where the bad girls on the list are. This year, I be...

For those looking for something special, I offer this from the vaults. From our house to yours Merry Christmas, Toad and Mrs. T

Now is my favorite part of the holidays. I love the pre-christmas gathering of the clan, filling up our drafty old house with love, laught...

We received an invitation this week to attend Mary's birthday party. Mary is a lifelong friend of Mrs. T, and I fell in love with her t...

"IT is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." - Jane Aust...

by We Heart it.com I was catching up on world events traipsing English language newspapers around the globe and came across a compe...

Christmas is not my favorite holiday, it's Mrs. T's. I'm not quite Ebeneezer, but I'm easily put off the holiday by inconseq...

Apparently, it is OK to drop your computer. The trick is to not have it land. I didn't know that earlier, I do now. So my beloved T...

Shalom

"O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth!" Shalom

The 5th night of Chanukah is known as the darkest night. Why, because it never falls on Shabbat. Shalom

Blessed are you, Lord our G-d, King of the Universe, Who sanctified us by his commandments, and has commanded us to kindle the lights of Ha...

In an attempt to break the cycle of HO HO HO I offer something different, a touch of poetry.  Admit it, you haven't read this poem sinc...

Blessed are you, Lord our G-d, King of the Universe, Who sanctified us by his commandments, and has commanded us to kindle the lights of ...

The most important element necessary for any tradition to flower is repetition. We celebrate annual events each year the same way we always...

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 through His ...

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