This morning I turned in my Angel Tree package at work. This year, it was for a seven year-old boy. When I was seven, my parents gave me a hardcover copy of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos. The book is well-loved and sits, to this day, on the bookshelf in my dining room. I tried to get … Continue reading An Angel Tree Package
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With 2016 drawing to a close and 2017 about to begin, I decided to take a look back at 2016 and spotlight the best (or most significant) blog post of each month. Some months — July, quite notably — were more difficult that others; there were a few months, like March and August, where I … Continue reading On the Year that Was
As the company has done for a number of years, a Christmas tree was put up in the lobby and, a few days after Thanksgiving, Angel Tree stockings were hung. I had decided long ago to participate in the Angel Tree program this year and, when I was passing by the lobby area on other … Continue reading An Angel Tree Package for the Office
Last week was… not the best. I should clarify. It wasn’t bad. It was simply stressful. And hectic. And tense. And all of the things that a week that where the catalog and orders go to press usually is. Thankfully, the week ended with the Nerd Prom — the Employee Appreciation Party (or the Christmas … Continue reading This Year’s Angel Tree Package
A few people have noticed that, sacre bleu, I changed my blog’s theme. It’s festive. There’s an Elf in the header. I made the change a few weeks ago. It’s just for the holidays, and after the New Year I’ll change it back. I’ve put up Christmas themes in the past, and this year I … Continue reading On Christmas Day
I mentioned a few days ago that I was putting together an Angel Tree package at the office. I talked about that here. Tonight I finished wrapping the thing, and tomorrow I’m going to take it to the office. MY work will be done. The tag I picked off the tree was for a seven … Continue reading On the Angel Tree Package
Every Christmas at work, the company puts up an Angel Tree. This year, I took a tag off the tree. It was the first time I had done so, as therein hangs a tale. This is the first year that the company put an Angel Tree in ths sixth floor lobby. In years previous, the … Continue reading On My Angel Tree Plans