Archive for 2010
Protected: Christmas Newsletter 2010
Sunday, December 19th, 2010CHRISTMAS 35 – 2005
Saturday, December 18th, 2010
My 35th Christmas on earth would come to represent many things. It was the last Christmas that Carolyn and I would spend together. It was the last Christmas that I would spend with my Grandma Murphy. It was the last Christmas that I would have without a nephew. And it was the only Christmas that I would spend with my purple furniture. Although Carolyn and I were going through a lot of problems, we managed to cope with the holiday quite well, decorating extensively complete with lighted garland hanging over our sliding door blinds. As we put up the tree and I looked at her under it, I wondered if this would be our last holiday season together. Read the rest of this entry »
The Evening News
Thursday, December 16th, 2010
I’m going to have to thank my friend George Willeman for this one. Or give credit. Or blame. However you see it. On Sunday evening, November 21st, I noticed that George had posted a video link on his Facebook page. This link took me to a site called Xtranormal, and it was an infantile attempt at animated humor – and I mean that in the nicest way possible. In fact, I liked it so much, I started to poke around and see how it easy it was that even I too could create these bursts of animated childishness. Read the rest of this entry »
The Holidays Before the Boy
Tuesday, December 14th, 2010
No matter how difficult it is to see just how, my parents did in fact have a short life together before I was born. In fact, they spent two Christmases together before I was even conceived: one as a newly dating couple who had only been together for a couple of months, and one as a married couple who had yet to set the wheels in motion of creating me and forming our family. There is a home movie that exists along with a small batch of photos showing my parents during this holiday. Read the rest of this entry »