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Bridge To The New Year
Two college graduates and an engineering student who has a brilliant mind for putting things together collaborated to build a bridge. Not some simple bridge, but one that took three incredible minds to put together. This was the after-Christmas-dinner activity for wired minds. It’s way past the Tinker Toys and Lincoln Logs kind of building.…
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Too Big For His Britches
I dared to buy a 31 1/2 pound turkey right before Thanksgiving, and when Christmas came, I hauled him out to cook, knowing we’d most likely have leftovers. What I hadn’t thought through thoroughly was whether Mr. Bird would fit in my roaster. He didn’t. His wings hung out so he looked like a perched…
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‘Twas Christmas Night
photo courtesy of Ian Borg on Unsplash ‘Twas the week before Christmas when all through the burg, folks were packed up and heading out because of the word of the current governor of Syria, Quirinias by name, who wanted a census taken for a very specific aim. To know who lived in his region, to…
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Sing Out Loud
He stood in the middle of his group, singing out loud and proud. Nolan at four participated in his preschool Christmas program, and his teacher informed us that he was in the center because he knew all the songs, the hand gestures, and could sing loudly. His older sister, Brooklyn, had a program that evening.…
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Grinchiness Lives!
Isley and Ryken participated in the production of “A Christmas Carol” at their school this past weekend. I’ve seen several different movie versions adapted from Charles Dickens’ novel, but I’d never seen the musical. The music added to the storyline of a man hardened by circumstances, watching his father thrown into prison for debt, promising…
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