We have the pleasure of hosting our grandsons at, as they call it, “Grandmother and Grandfather’s hotel,” a couple of days a week here in Warren in the old American Tourister Mill. Both kids, aged 2 and 4, love exploring…

But where are the clowns?Quick, send in the clownsDon’t bothеr, they’re herеStephen Sondheim “Send in the Clowns” I posted a photo the other day of the US Border Patrol emblem on the backs of rodeo clowns. It struck me as…

“For in that sleep of death what dreams may come?”Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1 Once again, we face the changing of the numbers, assigning an artificial appellation to the passage of time. 2026. Two thousand and twenty-six years marking…

Joe and Hope searched the sky for signs of the sleigh. “Shouldn’t they be back by now?” Hope said. “They’ve been gone a long time.” “I don’t know,” Joe said. “Maybe it’s just taking longer than he thought it would.”…

Joe left the cave, heading back to where he’d last seen his grandfather and the others. Looking around, he saw no signs of them. Then he remembered what Santa said about Levi and Wyatt. Focusing his thoughts on the two…

Walking along the edge of a frozen river, Joe had time to think. This doesn’t make sense. There are always possibilities. How can something exist without possibilities? Why would someone believe possibilities are something to stop? “Because they bring a…

Spero, Joe’s grandfather, and Joe climbed down from the sleigh. “Take the sleigh and go hide,” Spero said to Levi David. “We don’t want to alert them to our being here. If we need you, I will call for you.”…

The first Joe realized the bonds no longer held him was when the Nowhere Man took him by the hand. “Come with me. I want to show you something.” Joe stood, looked around trying to look for an exit, then…

One moment the sleigh was slipping silently over a dark, treeless landscape, then the next it seemed they were plummeting from the sky. “Hold on, Joe!” his grandfather said. “Really?” Joe said, grasping the edge of the sleigh as tight…

Joe and his grandfather stood next to the sleigh while Levi David and Wyatt James made some adjustments to things. “Where are we going?” Joe asked. “Well, I was hoping you had an idea on that subject,” his grandfather said.…