This past weekend I decorated my house for Christmas. No, I don't have a tradition of decorating the day after Thanksgiving, as do some families. I just do it when I have time, which happened to be right after Thanksgiving.
While I do enjoy the Christmas season and feel that Jesus' birth certainly deserves celebration, I'm not one to go all out with the decorations. In fact, my entire collection fits in two boxes: one for the tree, one for everything else. If it doesn't fit, it isn't kept.
The first thing I set up is my little ole' fiber optic tree. After my first wife and I separated, I inherited everything…
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Several weeks ago I posted an article entitled “The Big C” in which I wrote about the importance communication plays in my marriage. One very significant form of communication was left out of that article because it really needed its own blog entry to do it justice. While discussing this article, my wife Deborah suggested we each independently write about this form communication and post together as a “He said/She said.” I thought it was a great idea, and what follows is the result of that suggestion.
