Where Does the Time Go? Hopefully your business emails and frantic work texts have slowed to a trickle by now. The Christmas season offers us a time to reflect on the year past and to consider what ...

‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be ...

A new tradition and my Christmas gift to you, a poem I wrote for a year in review. Ring, ring, ring-a-ling. We’ve got some rhymes to sling. The prose can wait. All fun, no hate. Let’s try our first ...

The Christmas season, dreaded by some, beloved by others, especially children. Already you’ll find houses festooned with ...

The most oft-recited Christmas poem is probably Clement Clarke Moore’s “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” which set the standard for the classic American Santa Claus goodie-drop as we’ve come to know it. By ...

In 1823, an account of “A Visit from St. Nicholas” was published in the Troy Sentinel newspaper in New York. Today, we know ...

Editor’s Note: Clement Clarke Moore (1779 – 1863) wrote the poem “Twas the Night Before Christmas,” also known as “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” in 1822. It is believed that a family friend sent a copy ...

Editor’s Note: Clement Clarke Moore (1779 – 1863) wrote the poem “Twas the Night Before Christmas,” also known as “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” in 1822. It is believed that a family friend sent a copy ...

Last year at roughly this time, as astute Sun readers will recall, we featured “In the Bleak Midwinter,” by Christina Rossetti (1830–1894), to herald the coming of Christmas. As we noted with that ...

My blog earlier this week posited that it’s time to radically rein (deer) back on Christmas gifts (see Is it time to ban Christmas presents?), as it’s become a retail festival. It seems to have struck ...

Recite these cozy Christmas poems to share the holiday spirit and make even your Grinchiest loved ones say, "Ho, ho, ho!" Snow-tipped chimneys, fresh pine, lively carols and gifts wrapped with care: ...