Tag: Gingerbread

Remembering the Magic and Wishing for Peace on Earth

December 16, 2012

I dedicate this post to the children and the parents, everywhere, especially Newtown, Connecticut. Every year, in December, a marvelous thing happens. At least I think it’s wonderful. And not for the reasons you might think. Christmas comes around, bringing with it a sense of magic in the air, some thing that I felt as … More Remembering the Magic and Wishing for Peace on Earth

“A New Birth of Freedom”: Senator Feinstein Announces 2009 Inaugural Theme

November 9, 2008

If the presidential campaign and election of President-elect Barack Obama revered a patron saint, Abraham Lincoln would be the man. The great American poet and Lincoln biographer, Carl Sandburg, tells a story about Lincoln and gingerbread in his Prairie Years II, a story that Abe told in his fourth debate with Stephen A. Douglas – … More “A New Birth of Freedom”: Senator Feinstein Announces 2009 Inaugural Theme