Last week my husband and I, along with another married couple, visited the Dominican Republic, mainly the city of Santo Domingo.  The purpose of the trip was for the guys to revisit the place where they lived and patrolled in 1966 when they were young military police in the army.  Both had been drafted so [...]

The winter solstice for us in the Northern Hemisphere is this weekend.  Many of us view this time of year with great negativity because we live in areas where there is little sunshine and so much darkness and often very cold temperatures.  All this can lower our spirits to the point where we find ourselves [...]

Thanksgiving Day in the U.S. was always the official beginning of the Christmas holiday season highlighted by the arrival of Santa Claus at the Thanksgiving Day parade.  Things have really changed in the past few years though.  Now, once Halloween is over, we begin to see Christmas decorations in the stores and Santa Claus is [...]