Nina (the wife) and I have a few guilty pleasures. Driving around aimlessly at Christmastime and looking at the holiday lights is right at the top of the list. I love it. I love the garish and ridiculous tableaus of inflatable nativity scenes, running lights, sunglasses wearing snowmen, and cutout reindeer. I’ve burned more gas [...]
Archive for December, 2009
Blinded By the Lights.
Posted in Uncategorized on December 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Forest for the Trees.
Posted in Uncategorized on December 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As a kid, we never had a real Christmas tree. We had a large segmented tree that lived most of its life in the attic with the spiders, the long forgotten children’s toys, and dead relative’s furniture. Decorating day as always a to-do. Fighting up the drafty, cluttered, attic steps, to wrestle down the coffin-like [...]
