Back in 1988, I had a job at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. I was living in Manhattan, with my then boyfriend/now husband, and more often th...

May your stockings be filled with your heart's desires, and your table be surrounded by love. "Happy Christmas to all, and to a...

It started with three stockings. One for my mother, one for my father, one for me. Mine was white, with an angel in a blue dress. Yellow yar...

My mother loved doing Christmas. Her Christmas was an exuberant but tasteful echt-Victorian tree and ornaments and swags and lights and cand...

Y'all know that I have a lot of Christmas music, right? As of this morning, there are 1445 tracks tagged holiday in my iTunes library, ...

A couple of years ago, we got the girl a dollhouse for Christmas. She hardly ever plays with it, because it's too big for the Calico Cri...

Twas the night before Christmas, And all through the house Lots of creatures were stirring, and Barbie was riding round and round unde...

In the event that someone gives you a box of grapefruit for Christmas, think about saving the rinds. Candied grapefruit rind, or peel, is ea...

(10 points if you can identify the location.)

We drove into the city yesterday, to take two seven year olds to see Stomp . Somehow, even though it's been playing in the same place fo...

My mother did Christmas right. The house was decorated just so, a garland at the door, swags over the fireplaces, the golden rope across a m...

Hiding in the back pantry at the party the other night, so as not to offend the sensibilities of those who might be offended, were some Ch...

Since *everyone* does a holiday round-up about now, I figured I'd get in on the act with a list of some things that people I know might ...

Even though it isn't even Halloween yet, I confess that I've been thinking about Christmas cards , because it's a tricky thing, ...

One of my 4 and a half year old nephew’s Christmas presents was a switchblade comb – wildly inappropriate, thoroughly amusing. He ran aroun...

Tomorrow I have to go back to work. It's been a nice week and a half off - with Christmas celebrations that began on the 24th, and finis...

When the girl was two, we sent a picture of her in shades, holding a life-sized Elmo in a death grip. When she was three, we sent a pictur...

Ribbon, yarn, string. Tissue, kraft paper. Cardstock. Old paper patterns. Armed with a paper cutter, scissors, whimsy and a hot glue gun, ...

The child spent yesterday afternoon at her grandparents' house. While there, she helped make Christmas cookies, and brought home a littl...