Coming Clean About Christmas

By Melissa Minners                I love Christmas.  It’s all about peace and love and…well, there are some things that have happened over the years at Christmas that bear discussion.  Some things are just happy memories, but others, well…one never knows what one might see or hear at Christmas time.  I think it’s time I finally

I Still Believe in Santa Claus

A Christmas Season Reflection By Melissa Minners             The holiday season – a joyous time of year where peace and good will reign…unless you’re trying to get hold of a $399 laptop computer.  That’s when good passes out the window.  So what if I just knocked down some 70-year-old grandmother, causing her to be trampled

The Pine Tree of St. Martin

Author: Paulo Coelho  Reviewed by Melissa Minners             There are some days…hard days…when everything seems to be crumbling around you and no matter what you do, nothing seems to go right.  It is on those days that you sit wondering what you could have done or should have done differently to achieve a better result.