To those of you working today, I hope you have a pleasant, lovely day and that you can get a good amount done without too much stress!

In my earlier Secret Santa post, I covered how my office takes Secret Santa fairly seriously. We have a detailed list of information to fill out to help our Santa out. Welllllll, I got Kermit* (name changed to protect identity but preserve his love of […]

Today is St. Thomas’ Day! Thomas, one of Jesus’ original apostles, was historically celebrated in England, and had some very fun traditions.

When I was an undergraduate history student, I was lucky enough to take the History of Christmas with Gerry Bowler (Dr. Christmas, author of the The World Encyclopedia of Christmas). One of the saints that we learned about was St. Lucia, aka St. Lucy. So, what […]

How do I get all of my energy to bake and decorate and write cards and watch movies and wrap presents?? CHRISTMAS COCKTAILS. (Just kidding. It’s the baking, obviously.) I enjoy the fact that cocktails are making a comeback, and even though I doubt I […]