Advent is Coming
I was fifty this year and, in planning for my extravaganza of a party, I compiled lots of lists, many of them of fifty things.…
Christmas Reading
For many years I had books that I almost always re-read at Christmas. They formed a mixed bag but, inevitably, they all had a strong…
Christmas in Norway with Jostein Gaarder
It's Christmas Day and I am in Tromso in the north of Norway. Not coincidentally, I have just finished reading The Christmas Mystery by Jostein…
