TWO-THOUSAND-ELEVEN  sounds a bit like science fiction. It only seems like a few years ago that I brought in the year 2000 in Minneapol...

CHRISTMAS  EVE  was always a magical night for me as a child, as it continues to be for many of the more fortunate children of the world....

Here comes the sun,  here comes the sun,  and I say it's all right . . .                  — the Beatles WINTER  SOLSTICE this year ...

RARELY DOES it snow in the American South. Today it has flurried most of the day. Not much usually accumulates in Atlanta, but it...

RARELY  DO  I  see an evergreen tree around the holiday season that I don't instinctively want to decorate (or redecorate). I eve...

THE  MONARCH  butterfly is known in North America for its incredible fall migration every year south and northward return home in the...

SOMETIMES,  simple is better. I've always had a hard time with that though. The more I do, the more I realize that simplicity ...