Mood: ‘Musta Been Ol’ Santa Claus’ by Harry Connick, Jr.
Do You Hear Sleigh Bells?
After over 40 years living in Alaska, I still is snow at this time of year. Where I am now living on the East Coast there might be a few days where a snowfall hangs around. The only upswing of this kind of snow is that one doesn’t need to
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Christmas Memories, Parte the Firste
There are and very likely will always be so many good memories surrounding this time of year, and I hope that is true for everyone who reads these words. A fair few of them are always brought to me by the music of the holiday. The first Christmases I remember in the house on Park Plaza
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Mood: Mannheim Steamroller Christmas
The Return of the Return of the Native
Finally, with the knowledge that I would not be arranging the shipping of my belongings to the East Coast. It was on to other things of import to Soul, if not Material.
I believe it was that Thursday that the theater group I had enjoyed acting with for many years held their first
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Mood: ‘Alaska and Me’ by John Denver
‘The Last Stop’
“It was on October the Fourth that the man came back at last to the town of Granite Falls, where stood the House of the Bradicombs. Again it was evening, his arms were tired, especially the one that carried the baggage; and all parts of him felt in need of rest. As he rode down
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Mood: Camille Saint-Saëns “Danse Macabre”
Can you imagine? Another post about Hallowe’en by me? Did I not mention before that this begins my favorite time of year? Indeed, it does, and as such I cannot but seem to post about it’s separate parts, so to speak, beginning with, again, Hallowe’en!
Since childhood, it has always fascinated me. Well, scarcely the willies outta me, before the
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Mood: ‘Night On Bald Mountain’, ‘Danse Macabre’, Swan Theme from ‘Swan Lake’.
Eine Kleine Update
Much has been going on since my trip back to Alaska. So much so that I have had precious little time since returning to do much more than keep up with it all and do my best to take care of myself, as I really cannot afford to come...
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Mood: ‘Skullcrusher Mountain’ by Jonathan Coulton
I wait all year for Hallowe’en. Truthfully, it begins the celebration of the end of the year for me, moving from Hallowe’en to Thanksgiving to Christmas and New Years. As I get older, doing the decorating takes more time, but it must be done….and I have a lot of decorations for Hallowe’en and Christmas.
As I was away for...
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"In a trailer in Wasilla, Alaska there lived a Bradimus. Not a nasty, dirty, wet trailer, filled with the ancient carpets and a musty smell, nor yet a dry, bare, warm trailer with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a Bradimus trailer, and that means comfort."
I am off today not only to see if that trailer
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Mood: ‘Serenity’ by Brand X Music
A Saturday afternoon in September was approaching the time of arrival, and the vast tract of unenclosed wild known as Alaska enwintered itself moment by moment. Overhead the hollow stretch of whitish cloud shutting out the sky...
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September 3rd, 2017.
To Start With…
Double Anniversary Date.
2010, my brother Doug married Jessica, but it just so happened that it was also the day I got in my loaded Toyota Camry, two cat carriers in the back seat facing one another so Japolo and Gigi could see each other and take some comfort in that before they were free...
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