Blogger: Rachel Kent
We are well into the holiday season already! Wow. I’m still shocked that it is December and we have 20 days until Christmas! The holidays are a time to refresh and recharge before we all jump into …
Christmas
Christmas Books are Here (With a chance to get a free book!)
Blogger: Rachel Kent
Our clients’ Christmas releases are starting to arrive at the office. A couple of weeks ago, we received agency copies of Tricia Goyer, Sarah Sundin and Cara Putman’s Where Treetops Glisten and also An Amish Second Christmas…
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Building the Anticipation of Christmas
Blogger: Rachel Kent
The family Christmas tradition that I love is one that I now believe was established by accident and out of necessity. Every Christmas, my parents would have the children wait in the hallway with the door closed …
Ornaments: Christmas Traditions
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Last week while in Houston I visited with a professional Christmas installer. Apparently, many of the well-to-do hire professional installers to create holiday themes and decorate every room in their homes. A full install costs upwards of …
The First Christmas, Part 2
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
As we take another look at the event that changed all history, I think the setting– a humble stable, probably little more than a cave hewn out of the earth– bears a closer examination.
Our Christmas celebrations …
Five Words: Savor
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Location: Back in the Central California Books & Such Office
I’m back home, fondly remembering my time away and savoring my return home. That’s your final word for this week– savor.
I thought a lot about that
Remembered Person: Santa Claus, Sort of
Blogger: Michelle Ule
Location: Santa Rosa, Calif.
We didn’t raise our children to believe in Santa Claus. It wasn’t that we told them there wasn’t a Santa Claus; we just didn’t discuss him as a present-provider. We sort of punted …
Remembered Ornament: Mele Kalikimaka
Blogger: Michelle Ule
Location: Mainland, USA
Thanks to you, American taxpayers, my family spent four years sunning ourselves on the shores of Pearl Harbor while my husband rode his bike to work at the Navy base to repair submarines.
Christmas …
Christmas Remembered: A Favorite Ornament
Blogger: Rachel Kent
Location: Braving the shopping malls
It was hard to pick an ornament off of my tree as a “remembered” ornament because I’ve only had my own, full-sized Christmas tree for two years. I decided to write about …
Remembering Christmas: Two Turtle Doves
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Location: Books & Such Central Valley Office, Calif.
Here at Books & Such we’ve been blogging about our Christmas memories this month as a way for readers to get to know us better, outside of our professional …