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December 2023
is a time to gather golden moments,
embark upon a sentimental journey,
and enjoy every idle hour.”
__John Boswell
Oh we do have a Christmassy edition of Pencil Stubs Online this
issue! Having searched for new poetry and not finding the essence of
the holiday we turned to encores of our usual poets that were seasonal.
Many go back several years so should be new to the readers of today.
Enjoy!
It was a must to display Walt Perryman's "A Tumbleweed
Christmas" and his current poem "A Sometimes Doubt." Bruce Clifford's
"Traditions Lie" doesn't address Christmas, but Bud Lemire's "A Beatles
Christmas" certainly does. His other two poems are "My Forever Girl" and
"My Friend, John Summers." Although John I. Blair has been low on
current poetry, his history in Pencil Stubs boasts well over a thousand
submissions, including his various column series, so we chose these to
bless us this month: "Keeping Christmas," "When Roses Bloom in
December," and "Winter Doesn't Have a Texas Address."
The other three are from your editor and are on the
sentimental side as the one titled "Make Mary Merry" was an actual
intention of my late sister Noralee Crowson following the loss of my
husband of nearly 33 years who passed October 17, 1996 and our father
John (Jack) Edward Carroll who died only a short time before AG on July
1, 1996, so our mother Lena May and our other sisters were also
grieving. The other two are "The Season" and "Tiny Miracle" which has
become like a tradition for December.
"Introspective" by Thomas F. O'Neill shares the link to a
video of having Thanksgiving with his colleagues while teaching in
China, but also a bit about his Christmas periods there along with some
photos. Judith Kroll's column "On Trek" is about how our memories are
blessings. Pauline Evanosky's column is "Woo Woo," where she declares
Psychics aren't different, they just notice things. Marilyn Carnell's
column "Sifoddling Along" shares a loving tribute to her father and his
favorite pastime hobby of fishing, sharing some wonderful pictures as
proof.
We welcome our new columnist Ara Parisien and her expertise
as a
"Medium-Author-Spiritual Teacher" which happens to be the title of her
column. We have been chat friends many years and this promises to be a
valuable asset for our eZine.
What a comprehensive column is offered by Rod Cohenour
("Cooking with Rod") to put you on the path to a fabulous South of the
Border Holiday menu. Meanwhile our "Armchair Genealogy" columnist
Melinda Cohenour is lauding the proof to convict serial murderers
because of incontrevertible DNA results, and updates her column on the
Gilgo Beach tragedies.
We continue to bless our good fortune in knowing our co-founder and webmaster, Mike Craner, whose knowledge and expertise keeps Pencil Stubs Online
actually online We know how busy he is during this season as he "plays"
Santa on an excursion train in Virginia, delighting children of all
ages.. We place our confidence in him as we have in the past and shall
continue doing so.
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www.pencilstubs.net with the capability of adding comments at the
latter.
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