5 posts tagged “christmas”
Bentleyville is a magical place in the boonies outside Cloquet, Minn. My friend Ernie, Little Pirate, Ms. Dean and I went there the other evening to enjoy the short-lived snow.
If you live near, or visit this region at Christmastime,
(Sorry; my photos really do not capture the magic).
I dare say that only in Bentleyville will you spot the
Winter Loch Ness Monster:
How did you find out the secret behind Santa Claus?
Submitted by Carinish.
I was in second grade at Evans Elementary in Tempe, Ariz., which at the time was a bilingual public school. We were rehearsing Posadas, which is the ritual reenactment of Mary and Joseph's search for a place to stay, but instead of going house to house we went from classroom to classroom. We had a substitute because our teacher, like Mary, was going to have a baby.
One of my fellow students brought-up why we were celebrating Posadas because he didn't celebrate Christmas. And the teacher said something like "because this is a Mexican tradition celebrated by many of your friends' families. Some of your friend's also believe in Santa Claus, but you all are old enough now to know that there is no Santa Claus and it's your parents who give you the gifts"
I went home and immediately interrogated my parents.
Speaking of GAP Christmas commercials, their current "Peace, Love & Gap" commercial sucks. Remember when their Christmas commercials seemed more art than advertising?
