And, of course, we had a tree that took center stage in the living room, in front of the big picture window. But that tree--let's just say it was not the tree of my dreams. While it was pretty, and it ...
A perfect example is when someone I both trust and admire recently told me the story of how Bing Crosby wrote the Christmas classic “Silver Bells” after hearing the Salvation Army bell ringers in ...
During the Christmas season when I was a boy, my mother used to take my brothers and sisters and me down to one of the roughest neighborhoods in San Francisco — to visit some animals that were ...