Seasons of the Holiday Spirit

Now featuring five stories!

Seasons of the Holiday Spirit, though (originally) comprised of only four poems or rhymed stories, was written over four decades. When Santa Was Delayed and The Year Every Day Seemed Like Thanksgiving and Christmas, were written in the early 1980’s as Christmas gifts to the author’s bride. The Year Santa Came Twice and After the Star followed some forty years later.
After the Star begins as the well-known story of the Magi following the Bethlehem Star to the place of the birth of the young Christ child. The story chronicles the thoughts and reflections of the Magi over time as they wonder what may have become the fate of the young child they had so diligently sought many years before.
When Santa Was Delayed depicts Santa, elves, and reindeer having experienced a problem while in flight, and having become stuck in the snow with no help in sight. Santa’s unfortunate accident afforded mom and dad the opportunity to share the true meaning of Christmas with their children that year as the rest, though Santa never came.
The Year Santa Came Twice begins with an exhausted Santa, elves, and reindeer having just returned from their annual visit to the children of the world on Christmas Eve. Mrs. Claus discovers a solitary present remaining in Santa’s toy bag, having inadvertently failed to be delivered to a soon-to-be disappointed child.
Mrs. Claus insists that a return trip be made to deliver the gift immediately. The deer and elves are split about making such a trip while completely exhausted. In the end, Mrs. Claus prevails and goes along on the whirlwind second trip. All ends well!
Finally, in The Year Every Day Seemed Like Thanksgiving and Christmas, a Medieval King comes up with a scheme to keep the holiday spirit alive within his kingdom for an entire year. The King’s scheme is successful. For at least one year the people of his kingdom experienced the attitude of thankfulness, generosity, and joy, every day of the year.