The Rest, As They Say, Is History
Around this time of year, Mr. Gray and I–mostly I–start talking about Christmasday. This is quite different from Christmas day, but equally importan...
Category: tradition
Pumpkin Pilgrimage
For as long as we have lived here, Mr. Gray and I have made our way to the pumpkin patch a few blocks from our house the first week it opened. In fact, the year...
Let’s Make it Christmas
Without a certain few movies, Christmas just isn’t Christmas. The funniest part of it is, not all of my “Christmas movies” are even Christmas ...
Oh, Christmas Tree!
Last Sunday was Christmasday (not to be confused with Christmas day) at our house! It’s absolutely one of my favorite days of the year! We cut down our tr...
The Ghost of Thanksgivings Past
By past, I mostly mean I wanted to get pumped up for the game this evening. After all, that’s what Thanksgiving is really about, right? Football. Ki...
It’s Not Whether You Win or Lose…
I don’t think anyone questions where my Aggie loyalty stands–even when we’re blowing seventeen and eighteen point leads. It breaks my heart to...
One of “Those” Ags
When I was a senior in high school, I was accepted to Texas A&M. I had been to the campus twice–once on a bus with an Aggie club to a football game an...