Riding in the car with my husband recently, I got to thinking about jubilating. We have the noun form, jubilation. Why shouldn’t we have a verb form? Jubilate. It has a nice ring to it. It sounds active. It could mean either to be joyful or to make joyful. Thus, it could be either… Continue reading Jubilating
Month: December 2022
Christmas Trees
‘Just put the last ornament on the living room Christmas tree. Decorating trees is a labor of love, both retrospective and prospective. Our parents gave us an ornament every year, so that we’d have some ornaments when we grew up and had trees of our own. They weren’t, for the most part, fancy. One… Continue reading Christmas Trees
Maneuvering
If any season of the year feels like it speeds along, it’s this one between Thanksgiving and the end-of-year holidays. Days are short, activities plentiful, and to-do lists long. It feels like we all have a lot of balls in the air. At our friend Pat’s house, more than balls are in the air. … Continue reading Maneuvering
Tubas and the Barrier
A warm and lovely sound filled the air at Farmers Market this Sunday. It was Tuba Christmas. Somewhere north of forty musicians played a concert of Christmas music on tubas, euphoniums, baritone horns, and sousaphones. The bell of one of the sousaphones even sported a Christmas wreath. As usual, the performers seemed to be… Continue reading Tubas and the Barrier
Dogs and Dishtowels
My husband and I realized with sorrow, yesterday, that the Thanksgiving leftovers are nearly gone. We’ve eaten our way through the special-occasion fuss-and-bother favorite foods. We’ve even finished the treats Cindy brought us a couple days after the feast—homemade sticky buns and pumpkin pie with whipped cream. Everything looked gorgeous and tasted so good. All… Continue reading Dogs and Dishtowels