DUBLIN – 2020 was the strangest of years. When the clock strikes midnight next Thursday night, I...
Category - Holidays
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...
Tune in to a radio version of ‘It’s a Wonderful...
Pekin, Illinois, U.S.A. – As the idiom goes, “the show must go on!” Yet in the midst of a global...
Finding peace in your blessings
Milford, Connecticut, U.S.A. – This year has been a year of hardships and sadness. We as humans...
Despite the pandemic, count your blessings
Pekin, Illinois, U.S.A. – Happy Thanksgiving! With everyone’s favorite food holiday coming up...
Mexico’s Day of the Dead: a party with lost loved ones
Cuautla, Morelos, MEXICO – On the first and second of November, when you walk through the door of...