Pretty In Pink... Perfect In Paisley!

In the mind of a writer and an incurable romantic, Christmas is full of wonder and magic. It breathes hope and passion and ignites everything imaginable. It relights memories and highlights tradition. It focuses on true meanings and the real joy of the spirit. No matter how old you are at this time of year you long for ... Magic! Something out of the ordinary that reaffirms something bigger than yourself! My favorite Christmas read is Paint Me Rainbows by Fern Michaels... and although I don't recall (at the moment) the moments leading up to the end... This I vividly recall. The main character is in church broken hearted from a horrible fight and the guy angry leaves town. She reflects on the year and everything that transpired, trying to separate differences and come to terms with the fallout. It's Christmas Eve, snow is falling. The congregation is singing Angelic hymns. Trying to keep her composure and hold it all together offering up prayers and blessings... She turns ar...

Here we are, count down to Christmas. Can you believe it? We are 10 days away from the jolly old man making his appearance for the umpteenth time in history. It would be redundant to ask, where did the time go or man, how did it sneak up on us? Like every year we know it comes around and as we get “older” each month flies faster than Santa’s sleigh! Am I prepared? Am I ready? Hell no to be honest! I am not even in the Christmas spirit. I can’t find it and as I have looked around at others they are not much in the jovial spirit either. From what I have seen most would like to postpone, suspend or make the darn holiday completely fall off the calendar…forever! It shouldn’t be like this but it is… Christmas spirit is gone. The true meaning of Christmas spirit disappeared several, several decades ago. Industries have capitalized on the economy’s misfortunes. Big box stores and advertisers have ruined what we as children looked forward to and as much as I don’t want to talk rel...