Civil Rights Memorial “But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.” ~ Amos 5: 24 ~ It was dusk when we arrived, at our day’s destination. For some time, I had wanted to see this Memorial in person, and worried with the setting sun...
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My Little Town of Bethlehem I Did Find It A Better Home “This year, The Village was put up in the Library, on a new table; there are quite a few new elements, which needed to be accommodated. It has grown so much, and taken on such a different feel. As I...
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Happy Hanukkah! “We light these lights for the miracles and the wonders, for the redemption and the battles that you made for our forefathers, in those days at this season, through your holy priests. During all eight days of Hanukkah these lights are sacred, and we are not permitted to make ordinary use of...
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Gingerbread Station A great addition, to a holiday party, is a Gingerbread Station. I have never met anyone, even the sternest of souls, who with the tiniest bit of prodding, will not pick up an icing bag or box of gumdrops and bring life to gingerbread, be it a structure or creature. Decorating...
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One Hundred Years Since the War to End All Wars Began Armistice Day As the European nations, which fought in the Great War, begin to mark the one hundredth anniversary, of the start of this tragic conflict, stopping to honor their dead; we in the United States, remember all Veterans who have honorably and...
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A Happy Halloween House My house smells like gingerbread, thanks to my gingerbread house! I am highly susceptible to advertising; thus standing in line, at Trader Joe’s, I saw this gingerbread house, for Halloween, and impulsively bought it. I must say, I am not sorry about the purchase. I do not like...
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Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur “May you be inscribed (in the Book of Life) for a Happy Year.” “Le shanah tovah tikateiv veteichateim,” Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, begins at sundown on September 24 and is celebrated through September 26; while the holiest day of the year, for Jews everywhere, Yom Kippur, the Day...
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Autumn has Arrived I normally cannot wait to decorate for autumn, my favorite time of year; however, the chilly New England nights, and leaves which have already begun to turn, have made me a bit reluctant to let go of summer this year and decorate for fall. But today the wreaths will be changed,...
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Philadelphia “When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a...
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Nowruz A Very Happy New Year to all of you celebrating Nowruz, the first day of spring, and the start of a New Year on the Persian calendar. In your honor, a few of the splendid Persian treasures housed at the Smithsonian, from the Ancient Luxury Collection of Freer and Sackler. ...
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