No wonder why George Lucas wanted it destroyed.
Christmas
Christmas 2011
I hope everyone had a great Christmas. After a daring battery run to Walmart on Saturday morning, we met up with the Sieberts for coffee/tea and to exchange gifts and Christmas cheer. After that we headed out to Warman to Lee and Brittany’s place for Christmas Eve dinner to open gifts. Wendy talked about the [...]
No Social Services Checks before Christmas
From Joe Couture of The StarPhoenix A Saskatchewan Party government decision to change the date January social assistance cheques are released to after Christmas from before has come under fire from the NDP Opposition. As of 2011, Social Services changed the date cheques were issued and direct deposits paid to Dec. 29 from Dec. 23. [...]
2011 Christmas Gift Ideas for Your Husband/Boyfriend/Men in Your Life
It’s Wendy again and I am pretty lucky as Jordon does all of the Christmas shopping in our family and over the years he has created some incredible gift guides for his website which have generated a loyal following. I traditionally write the Gift Guide husbands/boyfriends/fathers and this year I get to kick off the [...]
The need this Christmas
"The need is greater this year than I’ve ever seen it. One little girl didn’t want anything for herself. She wanted a winter coat for her mother." – "Head Elf" Pete Fontana at New York City’s main post office, who leads a staff of 22 people in sorting 2 million letters in Operation Santa, which [...]
Holding on to what we got
An excellent essay in Salon describes what Christmas means for a women with terminal cancer. When your partner is dying, the idea of a shiny new Lexus as a symbol of commitment — to anything other than monthly payments — becomes particularly odious; "diamonds are forever" takes on depressing new meaning (because life isn’t forever). [...]
