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The Christmas Goose Comes Early

Posted on December 22, 2010 by Terry Taylor

Saturday shoppers strut through Tyson’s Corner mall. Christmas is in two weeks. You can see the building stress in their faces. The line for Santa is long and coughing and features a juggling elf amid a gauntlet of snotty sleeves … Continue reading →

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It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year?

Posted on December 15, 2010 by Terry Taylor

Let’s all gather around the fake tree – the tattered Tannenbaum that no one will want to take down in January – and pretend we can’t wait to watch “A Christmas Story” for 24 straight hours on tbs. Fah-ra-ra-ra-ra. It’s … Continue reading →

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Sniffing Around The Christmas Tree

Posted on December 25, 2009 by Terry Taylor

  Christmas morning 1972. Smells of link sausage hang above a table filling with grits, eggs, cathead biscuits and homemade jelly from the blueberry bush out back. The aroma of Prell shampoo sneaks out from under the bathroom door and … Continue reading →

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Meat? Log? Both?

Posted on December 23, 2009 by Terry Taylor

  I get a lot of catalogs this time of year. They are filled with fruitcakes, hams, smoked turkeys, cheese, jelly, cookies shaped like Santa, etc. So what do they do with this stuff come January? Hopefully they don’t save … Continue reading →

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Lights and Kremes

Posted on December 21, 2009 by Terry Taylor

When I was growing up, we weren’t exactly wealthy, to say the least. For entertainment during the holidays, my family (and sometimes friends) would brew up a Thermos of strong coffee, pile into the old Bel Air, fog up the … Continue reading →

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Lit and Loaded

Posted on December 9, 2009 by Terry Taylor

I heard part of this story and witnessed the other part of it. The year was 1974. Down on Highway 29 headed south out of Andalusia, Alabama towards Florala and the Florida line, a single, tall evergreen tree leaned achingly … Continue reading →

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What I Got For Christmas: Fire Ants

Posted on January 2, 2009 by Terry Taylor

I have written about fire ants before. But things have changed in the South. Call it global warming. Call it a fire ant invasion. Call it an environmental rash, whatever. I have experienced fire ants up close all of my … Continue reading →

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This Year, I Was The Fat Man. Again.

Posted on December 31, 2008 by Terry Taylor

Many years ago when my nephew (now in his early thirties) was a child, I did something so stupid it has attached itself to me like a permanent holiday appendage: I wrangled a Santa suit and scared him so badly, … Continue reading →

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Smoked House

Posted on January 16, 2008 by Terry Taylor

During the holidays, Dee Briggs had an idea. “I’m going to go to the grocery store and get a turkey and take it to Extra Billy’s (a local barbecue restaurant). They’ll smoke it. You want me to get you one?” … Continue reading →

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Little Girl With The Bloody Lip

Posted on December 21, 2007 by Terry Taylor

{ NOTE: This story is over 40 years late. I referred to it in the previous, “The Invisible Holiday” story. As a child, I had a habit of concocting a story about the people I saw as we traveled. The … Continue reading →

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1965: The Invisible Holiday

Posted on December 19, 2007 by Terry Taylor

The backseat window glass of the 1962 Chevrolet Bel Aire was ice cold to the touch and I blew a frosty breath circle that clouded the passing of the Hall Brothers’ Dairy south of Montgomery. The receding amber of sunset … Continue reading →

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“Did I Do That?”

Posted on December 12, 2007 by Terry Taylor

I remember when the annual office holiday party was a bit like the aptly-named bar in that grisly-yet wonderfully-bad movie “From dusk til Dawn” – an endless night in a funky, dark room filled with drunks, debaucheries and more than … Continue reading →

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