Today mom and I celebrated Christmas with my paternal grandmother, Martha Virginia Noyes. at her apartment in Fremont, CA. She is my sole...

Tonight I attended my church's annual Christmas Eve service, this being at least the second year in a row I have been in attendance a...

Surely I shall never forget. If I have to explain any of this then you have been exposed as a pop cultural dweeb. For those of you who ...

Tonight my church home group (essentially a church bible study held at the home of an amazing couple who are friends but not members of o...

I'm not going to rehash all the details of Christianity creating Christmas to replace Saturnalia and other pagan celebrations around t...

Tonight I indulged in the annual Paso Robles Vine Street Victorian Christmas Showcase celebration in my neighborhood. I spent the first ...

Tonight I walked my dog Tequila around the neighborhood along the Vine Street Corridor where the neighborhood is preparing for the annual ...

Tonight I realized I will miss this year's Vine Street Victorian Showcase event here in Paso Robles this Saturday evening as I will be w...

In celebration of completing my big History 303 paper I treated myself to a glass of pinot noir at Hotel Cheval downtown Paso Robles nary ...

This is the first impressive Christmas light manifestation in my neighborhood as Vine Street Victorian Showcase approaches in two Saturday...

There are multiple performances of this song that have aired on SNL over the years but here is one as good as any of them as they are all w...

This is the second installment of "Do They Know It's Christmas" this time by Band Aid II which came out in 1989. In 2011 I po...

I came across this earlier today and was overwhelmed by both its soul-crushing sadness as well as its transcendent beauty. Watch with a box ...

For a bit of background on this heartwarming tale read HERE .

Tonight I visited the 2nd Annual Cambria Christmas Marketplace at Cambria Pines Lodge . This was my first time visiting this event and I di...