“Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone. ”
— Charles M. Schulz

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I suspected as much.
Kristi King, wtop.com
UNDATED – If you need another reason to relax during this holiday season, here it is. The number of fatal heart attacks peaks Christmas day and New Year’s Day. “We think it’s stress associated with the holidays,” says cardiologist Robert Kloner with the University of Southern California Keck School [...]

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Laissez les bons temps rouler!
Thousands get early start on Mardi Gras
By MARY FOSTER, The Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS — Mardi Gras _ New Orleans pre-Lenten celebration that ranges from family picnics along parade routes to X-rated flesh-fests on Bourbon Street _ went into its final hours with high sprits, mild temperatures and glitzy parades.
Thousands, many already [...]

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I heard it through the grapvine that today is TSA’s birthday.  I am posting this photo in honor of her love for kitty cats.
May your day be as happy, relaxed and totally chill as this kitty makes it look!

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Okay – so…some things about Valentines Day.
I like it when I am already feeling romatical and stuff.  However, when I’m not already in romance mode, I RESENT Valentines Day, making me feel guilty for not doing some big TO-DO for the fellas.
I CANNOT SCHEDULE ROMANCE!  I am a girl who functions off of INSPIRATION only.
Anyhoo [...]

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It was a very good year, at least for producing world-famous personages:
January 4 – Louis Braille, French teacher, inventor of the Braille writing system for the blind (d. 1852)
January 19 – Edgar Allan Poe, American writer and poet (d. 1849)
February 3 – Felix Mendelssohn, German composer (d. 1847)
Today, February 12 – Happy Brithday to Abraham [...]

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“In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) And everyone went to his own town to register.
“So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, [...]

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PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. – Santa heads off on his journey and you can track where he is.
The North American Aerospace Defense Command says it’s been notified that Santa is launching at 6 a.m.
“For the past six years Santa has launched from the North Pole two hours earlier than he intends this year”, said [...]

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Join us in person or online for an original Bridgeway Community Church Christmas production, complete with music, media, and message.

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I found this story in the Washington Post’s seasonal feature, “Yule Log.”  I had a good laugh thinking about my husband’s and my son’s wrapping skills and imagining someone paying $6 for either of them to wrap gifts.  My daughter has generously offered to do their wrapping for them this year.  She’s such a sweetie, [...]

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Now, Dasher! Now, Prancer! …On, Millie and Spruce?
By JAMES K. SANBORN, Capital News Service/Maryland Newsline
WHITEFORD – “Hi, reindeer. Hi, Rudolph,” one child excitedly yelled as he was driven past two penned reindeer on a recent visit to Applewood Farm.
Millie and Spruce, the farm’s reindeer, are often mistaken for their more famous “cousins.”
The two are [...]

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