Holidays, so we have been told,
are joyous times for young and old.
Families gather, traveling many miles
and greet each other with welcoming smiles
and tales of what went on in their life,
mostly pleasant, with occasional strife.
Eventually, to maintain the mood,
they will be presented with holiday food.
They will eat, and reminisce,
and talk of the past, and things they miss,
but not with sadness; rather, with joy --
a favorite game or long-lost toy,
a long-ago trip or
I’ve started and reworked this post quite a few times over the past few days, and I doubt I’ll ever be happy with it, so I’m going to go with this revision and be done with it. As many of you might be aware, I was granted a reader position in the Golden Oaks Library Revival club here on the forums. I consider this a high honor, and a duty that I will not take lightly. I never expected to be granted any type of staff position here, so being accepted was a complete surprise to me. I’d like to p
