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 ...

This season is such a special time of year filled with joy and goodwill. It's a time for Christmas pageants, singing carols, giving gifts and decorating homes. To further your festive spirit, you may ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

I wrote this Christmas garden poem for this column more than 38 years ago. It is still the most requested encore of any column I have written, and as a gift to my readers I grant copyright permission ...

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 ...