Archive for the ‘holidays’ Category
Meeting Disappointment with Friends, Gratitude, and Apple Pie
I’m grateful this Thanksgiving for another opportunity to learn from disappointment, to appreciate my friends around the world, and to celebrate another day in a place I love with the man I love (who also happens to make a mean pizza).
Read on...Buon Anno from Southern Italy!
Wishing you and yours much love, happiness, health, and tante belle cose in 2011:
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Love Thursday: Christmas Poinsettia Love
For our first Christmas together, P brought home a gorgeous stella di Natale (poinsettia, or literally Christmas star). He really had no way of knowing how much I love the poinsettia — always a fixture at my house growing up during the holiday season — so it was a special gift indeed. It became even more wonderful over the next four Christmases as it bloomed each year (not always right at Christmastime, but it came close).
But then this past summer, it began looking sickly, shriveling and sagging. I furiously searched the Internet for what to do to fix it, but nothing worked. I think it got some sort of root rot, but whatever it was, it was fatal, and it made for a very sad day here.
Until this little one showed up a couple weeks ago:
Poinsettia 2010
I don’t know if this poinsettia will make it past the Christmas season (it doesn’t seem nearly as strong as the previous poinsettia but fingers crossed!) but it did bring a little something special with it tucked in among its gorgeous red leaves:
How many hearts can you see?
Happy Love Thursday everyone; I hope you’re enjoying a fabulous holiday season.
Happy Christmas (War is Over)
Wishing everyone who celebrates a wonderful Christmas season full of love, joy, and, most of all, peace.
Download your own WAR IS OVER! (If You Want It!) poster in your language now.
Merry Christmas Eve from Calvin & Hobbes
As is tradition, here is the most adorable Christmas Eve poem of all time:
Happiest of holidays to you and yours!
Michelle Kaminsky is an American attorney-turned-freelance writer who lived in her family's ancestral village in Calabria, Italy for 15 years. This blog is now archived.
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