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This year, if you're reading essays, you're lucky enough

Pop into any gift shop near a tourist lake, and you will see a pillow embroidered with this truth: If you’re lucky to live by a lake, you are lucky enough.

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You’re not a mean one, Mr. Grinch

My father grew up in a family where affection was shown with stuff: your favorite food on every visit home, another what-not to set on a shelf and gather dust with all the others, outfits that you wouldn’t be caught dead in on the street.

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Remembering true spirit of Christmas

Everyone’s mouths will be watering after the aroma of the delicious meal they will feast on Christmas Day.

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Looking at La. Christmas controversy

Pastor Tony Spell is a man who believes in the plain truth of the Bible and the First Amendment. And that’s why Life Tabernacle Church in Baton Rouge will be having Christmas services as usual this year.

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There will be Christmas this year

In the 1974 TV movie “A Year Without a Santa Claus,” Santa gets a head cold and decides to cancel his annual Christmas Eve run.

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Common sense lacking today

A journalist asks, “What is the biggest challenge facing today’s children?”

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Unwrapping the Christmas season

If you’ve followed my plight over the past couple of weeks, you know that last week I still hadn’t bought Christmas gifts for anybody. Thankfully, I was able to speed buy gifts and get them wrapped up before doing Christmas with my fiancee’s family this past weekend.