by Don Freeman | Jan 4, 2022 | Blog
In France, there’s a saying that there is a cheese for every day of the year. Sue and I tried many varieties in our time there, but since, like architectural styles, cheeses are regional, being found almost exclusively in the department (or county) where they are...
by Don Freeman | Dec 30, 2021 | Blog
I invite you to invest a few minutes of your day, basking in the following songs on this Christmas, Day 6: Gather Round, Ye Children Come Away in a Manger Mary giving birth to Jesus was a wholly natural event – painful, long, complicated, messy, exhausting – and yet...
by Don Freeman | Dec 28, 2021 | Blog
Christmas! It is essentially about gift receiving. Yes, we give gifts out of the overflow of our gratitude, our love, sometimes even out of a sense of obligation, but receiving is more in keeping with the season. This is challenging to those of us in the Western...
by Don Freeman | Dec 24, 2021 | Blog
Just after midday they had entered Bethlehem, their long-awaited destination. Joseph had settled Mary on a small hill near the north entrance gate and gone in search of now-urgently needed accommodations. He spent the whole afternoon asking, asking, pleading, but...
by Don Freeman | Dec 23, 2021 | Blog
Today, the news from those returning from Bethlehem was not encouraging. All rooms were taken. Many Bethlehemites, too, like Joseph and Mary, had been obliged to leave for their ancestral towns for the census. In fact, it appeared that all of Israel was traveling to...
