December 2010
December 23rd, 2010
Written by Janice S. Ellis... in Publisher's Note with 0 Comments
Perhaps one of the greatest gifts of the holiday season is the opportunity to reflect, become rejuvenated, and reenergized about the true meaning of life, family, and friends.For a moment, we can put politics aside. We can escape the piles on our desks, the backlog on the assembly line. For a moment, maybe our troubles will be out of mind and out of site long enough to allow us time to revisit...
December 23rd, 2010
Written by Cindy Ferraino in Eyes On The Enterprise with 0 Comments
Long before the Halloween decorations came off the shelves and marked down to a deep discount, retailers began the ride on the Holiday bandwagon. Major stores like Target, Macy’s, and Bed, Bath, and Beyond decked their shelves and store windows in holiday regale.Years ago, someone coined the sales pitch “Christmas in July” to catch shoppers in the buying mood while they were still wearing shorts...
December 22nd, 2010
Written by Jodie Blankenship in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
Like many national park excursions in the Southwest, the exploration is expected to be an immersion of ancient Puebloan culture — an admiration of expert sandstone craftsmanship, where villages survived and flourished amongst canyon walls in an inhospitable desert, (compared to today’s easily accessible lifestyle). Canyon de Chelly (pronounced d’SHAY) National Monument provides profound examples...
December 22nd, 2010
Written by Russell Roberts in Setting It Straight with 0 Comments
Santa Claus. There is hardly a more All-American image than that of a tall, bewhiskered, overweight Santa, with rosy red cheeks, and a smile playing about his lips. In his red suit trimmed with white and dark boots, Santa’s likeness is instantly recognizable, no matter the setting.What most people don’t know is that much of this All-American image was created by a German artist named Thomas Nast...
December 21st, 2010
Written by Wendy Innes in Cover Stories with 1 Comment
For millennia, cultures around the world continue to celebrate some type of winter holiday, usually around the time of the winter solstice in the Northern hemisphere (for the sake of argument this article assumes the reader is in the Northern Hemisphere, however the same celebrations take place in the Southern hemisphere during the summer solstice).Usually the winter solstice occurs on the first...