First Up...Here is a Link
to IRISH NEWS USA #10
Good stuff here on
Irish Christmas Traditions
and A Christmas appeal
for Wells of Life.
Please have a look...
Christmas Season for me and
I am exceptionally blessed and lucky.
It is amazing how much
more energy and focus I have.
I give myself high marks for finally getting
into the habit of long walks,
a lot less drinking,
no smoking and slightly improved diet.
My renewed faith in God and
my own strange allegiance to my
Irish Catholic heritage has
helped a lot too.
The biggest blessing I have is my family.
My son Mark has also been a great help
to me. He is big in the moral support area
and he has helped a lot with the business
by running errands and helping
with the books. The other incredible turn
of tides is that I am also living an almost stress
free existence thanks to my son Matt
and his wife, the best daughter-in-law
in the world, Chasity.
Last year at this time, I was so ill and miserable
that I thought it was probably going to be
my last Christmas.
I was seemingly old, stressed and worn out.
The biggest stress that I now have is publishing
the Irish News & Entertainment.
My paper has not been a financial success for many years
and my son and his wife think I'm nuts
and stupidly stubborn for doing it still.
Stress is a killer and it appears that the correlation to
being a publisher of an Irish paper and stress is high!
Unless, I can fix that fairly soon,
my print publishing days are numbered.
Any input from any of my readers on this
topic will be appreciated. Now back to Christmas!!
I've had time this year to send out a few cards, a few gifts
and have actually bought a few presents for my sons early;
first time ever for that.
The so called War On Christmas amazes me.
What the heck has happened
in America that makes people so snide and
cantankerous. I am all for Christmas in all
its many forms and traditions.
I think Bill O'Reilly and his
WE SAY Merry Christmas slogan
is not just silly but obnoxius.
Say Merry Christmas by all means,
but for God's Sake don't
do so in a pugnacious manner.
The other idiots who complain about the
separation of religion and the state are
even higher on my Eat Coal list!
In the words of that wonderful and
often misunderstood American, Rodney King,
"Can't we just all get along!"
Hope you all are enjoying the
Winter Solstice with your
Glorious Christmas!
Jim McDonough,
Manhattan, Kansas
12/23/09
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