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Twas the Night Before Christmas

If you celebrate Christmas, are you wondering what’s resting under your tree this year? Kristen Cloud (@KCloudShelby) reports, “Based on early spending reports from the National Retail Federation (NRF), products in the

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Christmas 2014

Katharine Elizabeth Whitehorn CBE, a British journalist, writer, and columnist, once wrote, “From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.” She’s probably

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Christmas 2013

Charles Dickens, the author famous for writing A Christmas Carol, once wrote: “I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time;

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Merry Christmas 2012

We have a lot to celebrate this holiday season. Among our blessings is the fact that we didn’t all perish last week as many pundits believed the Mayan calendar predicted we would

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Christmas 2011

Although Sunday is the Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Jesus, it is part of larger holiday season that marks the end of another year. One of the favorite carols sung during

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Happy Christmas 2010

Tomorrow most of the Christian world celebrates the Christmas holiday. Even some non-Christian countries join in the festivities because the lights, the tinsel, the trees, and the presents have become iconic features

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Merry Christmas

Christmas is obviously a Christian holiday; but it reflects historical traditions of giving and celebrations of life that lie at the heart of most of the world’s major religions. Few people in

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