December 2008
...ideas for a new year's bash with kids
December 29, 2008
When your kids are tiny, a new year's celebration seems to be one of very few ways to go: it's a night like any other: dinner, bath, bed; or dinner, bath, bed and get a sitter. Get dressed up, take a taxi to a nearby swanky hotel (they almost always host a celebration of some kind for stray revelers), have a few grownup beverages with friends, toast the new year, and taxi home; or variation on Read more...
...merry christmas
December 25, 2008
It's interesting how the story of Mary, Joseph, and the infant Jesus is rooted in hospitality: looking for a place at the inn and being denied it. When winter comes, the instinct is to come together for warmth and shelter. And to freeze out a young family...well, it's hard to miss the lessons of charity, empathy, and generosity embedded within the parable. Here's hoping you are surrounded by Read more...
...best decorated neighborhoods
December 23, 2008
If you're not up for the grueling wait for your car to roll slowly through the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power's Festival of the Lights in Griffith Park, you can cruise through the following Pasadena neighborhoods and admire the whizbang lights, moving reindeer, snowmen, Santa on the rooftop, and all the rest. It's cool that someone else does it--can you imagine the electricity bill? Read more...
...happy hanukkah
December 22, 2008
I shouldn't have been surprised, but as I looked for stories of how Hanukkah came to be celebrated, I found so many conflicting versions, I was starting to get confused. In looking for some rabbinical words of wisdom about the meaning of Hanukkah, I came across Rabbi Jill Jacobs' words in "The Ghosts of Hanukkah's Future," Tikkun , the magazine of progressive Jewish thought: It has sometimes Read more...
...holiday performances we love
December 18, 2008
Oh, the magic of a Christmas tree that grows, a nutcracker come to life, and all kinds of exotic and delightful dancing characters from around the world! Face it, even as a grownup, you too are still a tiny bit entranced by Clara's magical Christmas Eve and the strange rat king who must be defeated, and mysterious Uncle Drosselmeyer who begins the adventure. As a girl, our family marked the Read more...
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