Now that I'm an official old fart, I get to yell at clouds and stuff, right? This week, Facebook served up a meme that's definitely ...

The problem with this time of year is that every religion's holiday celebration is on a different day. The Jewish celebration of Hanukk...

I'm feeling pretty good about our holiday preparations here at La Casa Cantwell. The tree is up and decorated, as I mentioned last we...

Alert hearth/myth readers will recall that last Yule, I wrote a short, holiday-themed story for the blog. I had so much fun with it that th...

Clockwise from lower left: spiced nuts, lemon-poppyseed cookies, chocolate chip oatmeal cookies, almond horns, peppermint bark, raspbe...

It's beginning to look a lot like Yule here at La Casa Cantwell. Kitty and I picked up the tree today. It's a Fraser fir, between ...

I am almost ready for Yule. The cookies are baked (and mostly out of the house); the tree is up and decorated; the gifts are wrapped. Wel...

Mom would have approved. It's a Sunday night in mid-December, which means I should have our Yule tree up by now. But the calendar me...

Who knew a brain fart would turn out to be so expensive? Several weeks ago, while my daughters and I were killing time in a card shop af...

www.magickalgraphics.com Happy Yule! Today is the winter solstice here in the Northern Hemisphere -- the shortest day of the year. I tho...

www.magickalgraphics.com I thought I'd start decorating for the holidays a little early this year, since November was such a rough m...

I took down the Yule tree on New Year's Day.  Until this year, I have always left it up until January 6th -- Twelfth Night.  But it oc...