Month: December 2020

Some days ago, I was playing with my favorite 2nd Grader in the whole world. At one point she said to me, “Grandpa! Let’s pretend we are on a spaceship and traveling to Planet Christmas; a place where it is Christmas every day.”  The conversation was delightful and went further with her descriptions of what such…

I read the award-winning, “Mayflower: Voyage, Community, War” by Nathaniel Philbrick when it was first published in 2006. It was a fascinating read. Among other things, it took me deeper into the reality of our origins than the American myths taught in elementary school; myths about the Pilgrims’ altruistic, inclusive beliefs, the idealized stories of…