Posts tagged Christmas

Christmas Play:

Many Wisconsin churches celebrate the Christmas season with plays and skits starring children dressed as angels, stars, or bearded Wise Men. Writer Dean Bakopoulos tells us about his daughter’s performance one Christmas Eve.

Dean Bakopoulos is a novelist and creative writing professor at Grinnell College. His most recent novel is called My American Unhappiness.

Blue Christmas:

The holidays are usually a time for family and celebration. But they can also prompt reflections on things past and not always joyous. Writer Jane Hamilton brings us a blue Christmas story.

Commentator Jane Hamilton is the author of the award-winning novels The Book of Ruth, A Map of the World, and When Madeline Was Young. She lives in a farmhouse in Rochester, Wisconsin.

Christmas Lights:

December is here and the countdown to the holidays has begun. Festive decorations and strings of lights are going up all over. Today, writer Dean Bakopoulos tells us about the holiday decorating advice he once gave a friend.

Dean Bakopoulos is a novelist and creative writing professor at Grinnell College. His most recent novel is called My American Unhappiness.

White Pine:

The smell of fresh-cut pine is all around at this time of year – at stands selling Christmas trees, and deep in the winter woods. Novelist David Rhodes has been thinking about the smell of white pine and the way scent and memory combine.

David Rhodes is the author of the award-winning novel, Driftless. He lives on 35 acres of land in the Driftless region.