Thursday, March 11, 2010

The Smell of Christmas Cookies

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Brings It All Back
By Gayle Calder
Christmas memories … the smell of pine and cookies baking, people laughing around the table, the lights shining on the Christmas tree …

One of my earliest Christmas memories is of strolling down 5th Avenue in New York City with my mother. The store windows had beautifully dressed mechanical figures [...]

Don’t Be Afraid To Use The Things You Own

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Are Your Beautiful Things Just Collecting Dust?
By Gayle Calder
I was standing at my kitchen sink the other day, doing my annual silver polishing before the holidays, and it struck me that a lot of people today would think this was very peculiar and why would I bother. In today’s disposable world who in their right [...]