ISTANBUL – As another year passed, Turkey had its New Year celebration, but it was different this...
Category - Holidays
Finding hope at the dawn of a new year
DUBLIN – With hand sanitizer, social distancing, covid-19, George Floyd, President-Elect Joe Biden...
Simbang Gabi in the time of covid
Spring, TEXAS – Every year in December, I look forward to my family’s long list of Christmas...
Christmas joy, even in a pandemic
Milford, Connecticut, U.S.A. – Christmas is always a special time of year. Here in Milford...
The best Christmas present is hope for next year
DUBLIN – 2020 was the strangest of years. When the clock strikes midnight next Thursday night, I...
A Mexican Christmas is quirky and fun
Cuautla, Morelos, MEXICO – A night of peace is not how I would describe Christmas in Mexico. It...
A ‘calmly beautiful’ Christmas in the Philippines
Parañaque City, PHILIPPINES – In A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens famously wrote, “I shall try to...
Censorship is wrong, even if a Christmas song offends
Dublin, IRELAND – Every year, before the Halloween decorations have even been packed away, shops...