Tagged: holiday season

November 7, 2025

From Halloween to Holly Jolly: The Real Reason Christmas Seems to Start in November

I’ve noticed more and more people are treating November 1st as the start of Christmas — more than I ever remember in the past. My first thought was that it’s...

Blog

November 28, 2022

What Happened to the Magic?

Anyone else struggling to accept that it’s already the Christmas season? Where did the last two months even go? Time moves so quickly now—unless you’re in a hard season and...

"What we hunger for perhaps more than anything else is to be known in our full humanness, and yet that is often just what we also fear more than anything else. It is important to tell at least from time to time the secret of who we truly and fully are . . . because otherwise we run the risk of losing track of who we truly and fully are and little by little come to accept instead the highly edited version which we put forth in hope that the world will find it more acceptable than the real thing. It is important to tell our secrets too because it makes it easier . . . for other people to tell us a secret or two of their own . . . "— Frederick Buechner

Goodreads Quotes

Tagged: holiday season

From Halloween to Holly Jolly: The Real Reason Christmas Seems to Start in November

What Happened to the Magic?

Recent Releases

Subscribe

Jakki's bookshelf: read

Jakki’s quotes