It’s ten PM on Christmas Day Eve and quiet descends as families slowly begin to return to their pre-Christmas routine. The gifts are all unwrapped; the main meal eaten; the excitement abated. Maybe children will sleep through the night while

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With one exception a couple years back, I haven’t sent Christmas cards for thirty-nine years. Even so, I’m often amazed at the number of cards Earl and I receive without reciprocating. (To be truthful, Earl sends some cards but not

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I am struck with how quiet the holiday season is this year. It’s not just in my own family, but across the country at large. The malls are not teeming with people; I don’t know if the churches are. The

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I wrote yesterday about how hectic this time of the year can be. And I ended with asking myself, if no one else, how we can rid ourselves of “hectic.”

Here are things that came to mind, some of which

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Earl has tickets to various Notre Dame home games, one of them being the Saturday before Thanksgiving, today, when the weather is iffy at best. It’s deep into November and anything is possible.

Today a foot of snow was

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Even though I work for an online retail company, the significance of Black Friday was lost on me until recently. Whenever I heard the term, it reminded me of the famous Black Tuesday of October 29, 1929 when the stock

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