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When the Sears Wish Book made Christmas magical

The arrival of the Sears Wish Book catalog was always a monumental event at Christmas, and for kids like my brother, sister ...
As Kylie Minogue claims her first festive number one in the singles chart with XMAS, the even more hotly anticipated book charts witness another artist also finally taking the top spot in Christmas ...
After Christmas is over, there are still two months of scarce daylight ahead. Here’s a suggestion for how to fill the gloomy hours: read.
COMMENTARY: A Polish Christmas Eve tradition, kept year after year, came to life in a way none of us expected.
In the days leading up to Christmas 2018, the Williams family were told that their neighbor had passed away. He left behind a sack of 14 gifts for Cadi Williams to be opened each year on Christmas.
This trio of interconnected holiday romances from three popular authors is worth picking up all on its own, and the movie is ...
Greg Kincaid, who authored “A Dog Named Christmas,” is a practicing attorney who lives on a farm in eastern Kansas with his ...
We’re making our list and checking it twice – our “to be read” roster, that is. It’s that time of year when we stockpile the best books of the year and buy bookish gifts for the well-read people in ...
At this time of year, it can be difficult to pinpoint exactly what day it is, they all seem to merge into one homogeneous ...
I’ll share some tales below and you and your family can use the list to play a game of Christmas trivia. Let’s start with a claim that has long been accepted as factual…but isn’t. Better double-check ...
Writer Douglas MacKinnon describes how Christmas inspired him to write a children’s book about a moose who wants to grow up to pull Santa’s sleigh.