The Gift That Keeps on Aggravating I was so used to the fairy pigs that I forgot to tell my cousin visiting for Christmas. He woke up to his robe gone and two misshapen sacks by his bed. I rushed in at his cry of shock. “Wow, what beautiful shoes!” I exclaimed. “Listen,” I whispered,…
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Muse on Monday – December 22, 2025
A lot of interesting stuff happens on the border between two things. That’s because there is inherent tension between the stuff on one side and the stuff on the other. Borders could either be in time or space. We are coming up on a border in time between 2025 and 2026, although this is arbitrary…
Muse on Monday – December 15, 2025
Don’t you love Christmas? What, you don’t? A lot of us have a love-hate relationship with the holidays: love, because it is supposed to be a great time of celebration with family and friends; hate, because it is often filled with stress over expectations and sadness that things aren’t the way they should be. With…
Muse on Monday – December 23, 2024
So it turns out that Christmas is this week. So for this week’s prompt, we’re going to write a Christmas story. What exactly is a Christmas story? There are several different meanings of this. These are: The third one isn’t an official name, but it’s the type of story that takes place during Christmas and…
Muse on Monday – December 18, 2023
It’s the week before Christmas, and this is the time when many people are concentrated on gifts: either buying them for people or looking forward to getting them. Gifts are usually good (at least, we hope so). We might say that someone has a gift for languages or public speaking. Or anything, really. Of course,…
Muse on Monday – December 11, 2023
In North America, at least, December is often a crazy time of year. Christmas and New Year’s dominate the month and there are all kinds of holiday celebrations and end of year events. There can be pressure to layer on traditions, so that there is a lot to plan for. Each tradition and event has…
Muse on Monday – December 19, 2022
Muse on Monday – December 19, 2022 Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone out there! We all probably have certain images of Christmas and similar adjacent holidays in our minds based on our experiences and what we see on TV and in movies. This may give an idea of what a Christmas story should…
Muse on Monday – December 5, 2022
It’s December. In a lot of the world, it’s a month dominated by Christmas, with all the traditions and shopping that go along with that. It’s also a time when many people get together with family to celebrate the holiday. Families are interesting since we don’t get to choose ours and they can either be…
Christmas in the Dark
Merry Christmas, everyone, from the Green-Walled Treehouse, even if it is a few days late. Such is life in 2020. But, despite unusual circumstances, it is still Christmas and the meaning of Christmas remains the same. Christmas in the Dark It was never silent in the cave, but it was always night. Caleb lay in…
The Green-Walled Treehouse 