February 11, 2013 Happy Chinese New Year… “The Year of the Snake!” (-& belated greetings from snowbound Connecticut. A severe Winter storm has paralyzed the area with 40 inches of snow, causing many celebrations to be cancelled or postponed.) The Positive Qualities are : Decisiveness, intelligence, intuitiveness, elegance, attention to detail; snakes make good philosophers, […]
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December 17, 2011 “The first Christmas card was privately printed in London in 1843. As the exchange of Christmas cards grew in popularity, commercial production became widespread in Europe and America, providing customers with thousands of images from which to choose.” -The Metropolitan Museum of Art Also in 1843, Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol which was first […]