Author Archives: Samantha Halle
Lisa: On dressing as Santa
When Sam and Joelle were little, we had the most wonderful of in-home daycare providers. Her name was Bette Hair of Bette’s Kid Korner, and without her, I am not sure how we could have survived. I know this to be true, because she had retired by the time Dane came along, and it was […]
Things Daddy Loved: Cold cars
Things Daddy Loved: Jimmy Dean Sausage
Jon: On “two weeks before Christmas (with apologies to Clement Clarke Moore)”
It would not have been Daddy’s desk without his rhyming dictionary. Celebratory poems – be it for birthday-party invites, thank you’s or spreading holiday cheer – were his specialty. ‘Twas two weeks before Christmas and through the OC, Not a rumor was stirring on PMTV: Production Plans hung by the forecast with care, In […]