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A Warm and Bright Yule to you!

It’s Yule! What’s that, you say? It’s the Winter Solstice; the shortest day in the year, the day that signals the return of the sun to the northern hemisphere; the day that pagans celebrate with light and cheer and that was used to pattern some Christmas celebratory symbolism – the tree, the yule log, hot [...]

It’s a brand new year!

This post is long overdue (and somewhat overly long as well). There’s just been so much going on with me that I scarcely know where to begin. The Christmas holidays had loomed large and foreboding for me all year being the first Christmas that hubby and I were separated in this manner. Any Christmas’ we [...]