I swear I am not trying to pin down time and make it stop running out from under me, I simply like the glitz and lights of the fiber optic tree and the spinning pulse of our holiday lights. I had been thinking I would put them away this weekend. In fact I helped my father corral his decorations, Redbox and put it all away. But when I came home,…

I don’t know about you, but my family tends to gather for all the best and worst occasions. We get together for birthdays, graduations, weddings, holidays, celebrations of family, personal accomplishments, funerals, illnesses, to help one another out, and just because. Much like my dragons, we gather for any good reason because there is comfort and joy in knowing we are not alone. We may disagree, we may fight, but…