Hello, friends! Last year around Christmas time, I began writing a series of essays, filled with “half-baked ideas” about Christmas and the cookies we eat around that time of year. Well, t… more →
Joyous Thirstjoyousthirst wrote 1 month ago: Hello, friends! Last year around Christmas time, I began writing a series of essays, filled with … more →
joyousthirst wrote 10 months ago: When I was a kid, rosettes were my favorite cookie to make. Mom made them especially at Christmastim … more →
joyousthirst wrote 10 months ago: My Grandma (the one I live with) has a wonderful theory about cinnamon: she heard somewhere that it … more →
joyousthirst wrote 11 months ago: I am so very sorry that I let the “half-bakery” close its doors for the past couple days … more →
joyousthirst wrote 11 months ago: The first recorded Christmas song in the Bible did not come from the heavens with a full choir to ba … more →
joyousthirst wrote 11 months ago: It’s morning. I can tell it by the amount of light in the room. I can tell it by the way my bo … more →
joyousthirst wrote 11 months ago: “Mary’s Boy Child” Long time ago in Bethlehem, So the Holy Bible say, Mary … more →
joyousthirst wrote 11 months ago: I learned a new word last week: “gangrel.” It sounds like it ought to be a cookie. But i … more →
joyousthirst wrote 11 months ago: Family resemblances can be fun. We watch for them in movies or plays that we go to see (do the … more →
joyousthirst wrote 11 months ago: When I was at home in California for Thanksgiving this year, I ate a gingerbread cookie at my friend … more →
joyousthirst wrote 11 months ago: O little town of Bethlehem, How still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent … more →
joyousthirst wrote 11 months ago: God rest you merry, gentlemen, Let nothing you dismay, Remember Christ our Saviour Was born on Chris … more →