Top 10 Over the Top Christmas Actions

This Top 10 will let you know if the Yule is make you a fool.

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Top European Locations to Visit Around Christmas

Christmas is a popular time to enjoy a vacation in Europe, and there are thousands of potential destinations that would make a wonderful Christmas trip in the region. However, there are a few select locations that are without a doubt among the best places to explore during the winter holidays.

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All I Want for Christmas Is Just One More

There is magic in this season of belief that I have come to take for granted because I could not fathom my oldest daughter would stop believing, thus changing the greatest streak of Christmas joy I have ever known.

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It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year? 5 Tips for Avoiding Holiday Stress

You get to choose the kind of holiday you and your family have. Forget Currier and Ives and go for a good enough holiday that everyone remembers fondly.

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The Catholic Mass New Translations: Is the Church Going Backwards?

I don't profess to be some sort of church scholar, but what they're doing seems to be going backwards.

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Santa Goes High Tech: NORAD Tracking Brings Tidings of Comfort and Joy

Updated on Tuesday, December 20, 2011 at 8:57PM by James Dugan

While I had to rely on the method of leaving cookies and milk to trace Santa's whereabouts, the children of today will probably look back fondly on their technology and know with pinpoint accuracy when and where Santa had visited.

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Zuzu's Petals

I tell you all this with a sigh because I know this may be the last year that both my babies believe in Santa.

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How the Bunny Stole Christmas

This malevolent force stands about eight feet tall, has eyes that remain opened, is covered in fur and never speaks. No, Sasquatch does not need to earn some extra coin, because of the economic downturn, however the greeting card industry does. And much like Freddy Krueger, this furry menace attacks children where parents can not protect them, in their minds.

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The Magic of a Christmas Snow

And all the people who plowed and erased the snow from the present to make it a Christmas memory, well I hope they did it for free. And when I drove up the street to get my groceries for my Christmas eve party and saw the people leaning on their shovels, I believed they were meeting for the first time, learning names, seeing ages, understanding their place in life in reference to the face they were sharing the day, the event, the sun, the snow and their very existence with by living so close. But mostly I hoped when I came home on one of the shortest days of the year and saw the lights reflecting off that first snowfall of the season, I hoped that there were no goodbyes said, but just a thank you and an open invitation to share their lives found in a nod, a handshake, a smile.

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Patrick Edmonds' Christmas List: One Muse

Updated on Wednesday, December 21, 2011 at 8:39PM by James Dugan

All I want this Christmas is an inspirational muse. However, I don't want any one-dimensional, Homeric muse that merely helps me recall boring battles and wars of long ago or crazy stories of made up people from made up places fighting made up monsters. No, no, no! I want a fully-functional, top of the line, cutting-edge, all apps included muse that will arouse in me an erudition of incomparable size, a humor of unrivaled insight, and a style of unparalleled intrigue.

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