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The Christmas Experiment
Elizabeth Willis Barrett I’ve been such a Grinchy Scrooge or Scroogy Grinch around Christmas time for several years–OK, for most years–that I think it’s time I did something about it. So I am going...
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Days 1-6
Elizabeth Willis Barrett I’m behind before I start! I’d better quickly report the activities of the first six days of January before it races by and we stumble into February and are brought...
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Article 7
Elizabeth Willis Barrett Day 7: I finished reading the forward in Caroline Kennedy’s A Family Christmas book. It tells of the beginnings of the Christmas celebration as we know it now. To quote from...
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Day 8
Elizabeth Willis Barrett…….January 8, 2013 Day 8: I addressed six Christmas cards in which I added a letter and picture for today’s “keeping.” They are not extremely early. They are very late. I...
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Day 10
Elizabeth Willis Barrett………….January 10, 2013 Day 10: I visited a neighbor that I haven’t seen or talked to for months. Without this experiment, who knows how many more months would go by without...
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Day 12
Day 12 Elizabeth Willis Barrett………January 12, 2013 I would enjoy all the celebrating of Christmas more if each area of our home were purged. The mess of Christmas on...
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Day 14
Elizabeth Willis Barrett………January 14, 2013 Today is our oldest grandson’s fourteenth birthday. Fourteen on the fourteenth. That’s not Christmasy, but it is significant and worth celebrating. I read...
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Day 15
Day 15 Elizabeth Willis Barrett……January 15, 2013 I’ll have to admit that cleaning out bathroom cupboards and drawers doesn’t do a whole lot for the Christmas Spirit and I don’t think Charles Dickens...
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Day 16
Elizabeth Willis Barrett…….January 16, 2013 I went to lunch with a dear friend today. We’ve been saying that we needed to go for the last two years at least. But time just slides away like hour...
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Day 17
Elizabeth Willis Barrett………..January 17, 2013 The best way to learn something is to teach it. Therefore, I have commandeered my grandson into helping me learn to play the guitar by letting me teach...
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