By: Jennifer Richardson Holt Something about this time of year makes me—and I daresay a great many people—especially reminiscent. Traditions are built by pulling meaning from years of moments, and if Christmastime is anything, it is filled with tradition. And if I am anything, it is a sucker for tradition. So I have a lifetimeContinue reading “The Fragile Things We Keep 12/14/2025”
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What She Wanted to Say (and What I Needed to) 7/13/2025
By: Jennifer Richardson Holt This week has flown by, and there’s been a great deal going on. Not to mention, a topic wouldn’t come to me no matter how much random information I threw at myself, hoping something would spark a little creativity. I even came up with the idea to simply ask my daughterContinue reading “What She Wanted to Say (and What I Needed to) 7/13/2025”
Righting a Seasonal Wrong 12/24/2023
By: Jennifer Richardson Holt It is Christmas Eve. Don’t worry, I won’t keep you long. I know that all the last-minute preparations are probably fully underway, and you are at the epitome of busyness right now. Then again you could have been one of those who take on the task early, much like my mother whoContinue reading “Righting a Seasonal Wrong 12/24/2023”
Recollections of the Day 12/25/2022
By: Jennifer Richardson Holt And so, comes another Christmas. We welcome this one perhaps in a new way or yet again in ways that we have welcomed all the ones before. And then there is also the possibility that you’re greeting the day in some glorious mixture of old traditions and new. I suppose asContinue reading “Recollections of the Day 12/25/2022”
Can’t See the Forest for the Christmas Tree 12/19/2021
By: Jennifer Richardson Holt This will be the last blog before my most beloved of all holidays arrives. It seems so hard to believe. Where did this year go? Time has been such a relative concept these last few strange years. I think I was pretty certain at one point that August and September wereContinue reading “Can’t See the Forest for the Christmas Tree 12/19/2021”
Celebrations 6/6/2021
By: Jennifer Richardson Holt I was struggling with something to write about this week. Then a friend of mine came to me asking me to put some of her heartfelt thoughts into words since she has born witness to my wordiness and for some reason she found that it would serve well in gathering herContinue reading “Celebrations 6/6/2021”
Prose and Possibilities 