Everyday Joy
I Have Found Such Joy I have found such joy in simple things:A plain, clean room, a nut-brown loaf of…
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Tom Tricken Tracken
When I was little my Nanna use to recite this little rhyme to me… I climbed up stimber stammer,I looked…
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I Got A Little Snow
We only got a small amount of snow, but I love it so much I’ll take it. The accumulation was…
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Blind Pig and The Acorn – 2024 in Review
Every January I take a look back at what I’ve written during the course of the previous year. I’m always…
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Ruling Days in Appalachia
“The twelve days beginning on Christmas day, each one of which is said to govern the weather for one month…
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From the Archives: Granny’s Christmas Eve Story
December 24, 2018 Granny (on right) and her sister Geneaive The other evening I stopped by Granny’s after work like…
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Russian Tea for Christmas
RUSSIAN TEA At Christmas Momma always made a big batch, or maybe two or three of them, of this seasonal…
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Pretty Paper
Today’s post was written by Paul. Christmas drawing by Chatter in early 2000s I taught middle school language arts for…
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Christmas Memories
Pap, Tipper, and Steve at Christmas Our stockings were Daddy’s Nelson socks, the ones with the red heel. There would…
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Working for Christmas Money
Yesterday I had to take Granny over to Blairsville for a doctor’s appointment. On the way she told me about…
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More Christmas Tricks
Christmas trick noun An act or prank performed rarely, such as once a year at Christmas.1855 (in 1956 Eliason Tarheel Talk 265) (Wilkes Co NC) Papa waded…
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Sharing Christmas Cheer
I’ve been stoking my Christmas cheer by listening to Christmas songs and reading stories about Christmas past. I’m an avid…
