Christmas

Merry Christmas to All

It’s a Norwegian tradition to celebrate Christmas with the family on Christmas Eve, not on Christmas Day. In my own home, for most of my growing up years, we would have a snack late Christmas Eve afternoon and then choose one of the presents under the tree for each of us to open. Then weContinue reading “Merry Christmas to All”

Merry Christmas

To Sandy, From Henry: A Christmas Story About his paintings, Norman Rockwell said, “The view of life I communicate in my pictures excludes the sordid and ugly. I paint life as I would like it to be.” I grew up in Norman Rockwell’s small town America, where celebrating Christmas was wonderful and beautiful. This is aContinue reading “Merry Christmas”