Archive for the ‘Christmas’ Category
Merry Christmas
This is my 3 month old Toy Poodle, Lucy. She wishes everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Merry Christmas!!!
How do people around the world celebrate Christmas? Check out The History Channel’s World Tradition Christmas map.
Christmas as we know it today is a Victorian invention of the 1860s. Probably the most celebrated holiday in the world, our modern Christmas is a product of hundreds of years of both secular and religious traditions from around the globe. Click around this map to learn about traditions from different regions and, along the way, learn about the history of this most cherished of holidays.
Portable Yule Log
As a teenager, I would turn on WPIX-TV in New York City to watch the Yule log burn each year… well, now, you can take that same yule log with you.
Check it out the Portable Yule Log.
Book Recommendation: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The New York Times recommended this book about Elizabeth Cady Stanton…
Some Books Are Worth Giving; Some Books Are Also Worth Keeping
The first is “The Solitude of Self: Thinking About Elizabeth Cady Stanton,” by Vivian Gornick, published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
Stanton belonged to that astonishing band of 19th-century American radicals who changed the way we live - among them Frederick Douglass, Wendell Phillips, William Lloyd Garrison, Susan B. Anthony and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. Abolitionism taught the women to fight for justice; feminism challenged the men to expand their vision of what justice means.
I love writers who treat thinking as a dynamic process. Ms. Gornick does - here, and in all her books. Imagine a photographer of the psyche. She studies her subject from all angles. Whether in close-up or on a landscape crowded with political and religious movements, she explores the public and private selves.
Christmas shopping!!!
Need a plan before you head out the door Christmas shopping? Well, google yourself a map to make sure you know where you’re going and how to get there…
Google Unveils Tool to Map Shopping Trips
SAN FRANCISCO - Joining the herd of Web sites jostling to cash in on the holiday shopping season, online search engine leader Google Inc. is adding a tool designed to make it easier for consumers to map out their local trips to the mall.
The feature, to be unveiled Tuesday at Google’s Froogle shopping site, will pinpoint the merchants selling a specific item within a designated ZIP code. Besides displaying a map showing all the local stores carrying the merchandise, Froogle also will list price differences.
Black Friday
The NYTimes did a story about Black Friday web sites Supposedly it’s a big deal to “leak” the specials and circulars of upcoming after Thanksgiving sales to independent web sites like this one:
