History, Real Life and Faith
To round out 2013, I’m sharing random facts I discovered this year. Feel free to chime in! Historical *Once put into motion, it was physically impossible to recall the Russian call up of reservists–thus World War I *Lawrence of Arabia was illegitimate, as were his four brothers. *Biddy Chambers was nearly deaf in her left ear *The last casualties from World War…
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Christmas is a mixed message time of year for me. My mother’s death at Christmas punched most of the cheerful emotion out of the holiday for many years. Being the mother also can strip away the excitement as I work in the background to provide Christmas “magic.” But it hasn’t always been so. Every year, I reach back into my memory pocket….
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We celebrate Christmas every year with a Ule Log. And why not? When you have a Christmasy name, why not flaunt it? Click to Tweet My late mother-in-law always had the last word when she introduced herself in December: “I’m Mary Ule!” My sister-in-law contemplated changing her middle name to Tide, so that when you said her name backwards you…
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My favorite Christmas carol is not necessarily a popular one. But I listen to it all the time at home and enjoy other music while out in public. Christmas carols ring through my soul and cheer up each Advent season. Don’t you love the faint whispers of angels singing while shopping in crowded stores? It always reminds me of my first Christmas…
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We lived in Hawai’i for four years in the mid-1990s and got to experience the joy of a Christmas tree in a different culture. That meant holiday-themed t-shirts instead of hats and mittens and the exciting arrival of the Christmas trees the day after Thanksgiving. In those years, the arrival was a banner headline across the front page of the newspaper. Only one…
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A Christmas-themed totem pole is a key element in my recently published The Gold Rush Christmas, and highlights the creative way in which the nativity story can be expressed. In my story, adult twins Samantha and Peter journey to Alaska in search of their missionary father during the 1897 Gold Rush. The boy next door, seminary student Miles, joins them in…
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