This week I’m pleased to introduce you to Beth Havey as my guest blogger while Thom and I are traveling.  Beth is actually a neighbor of mine here in Southern California (about 150 miles away)—but we haven’t met in person—yet!  But I do feel like I know her because  I have been reading her blog Boomer Highway for several years now.  There she writes about many things that I believe are heart-felt and SMART.  Thank you, Beth, for filling in for me and sharing some of your ideas about relationships during the holidays.

Ebenezer Scrooge said: “I will honor Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year.” That saying is just one of the hundreds of memories in our hearts that help build our traditions during the winter holidays. Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukka, Kwanzaa or other traditions associated with the winter solstice or eastern religions, it is a time of year that gathering friends and family together helps create a warm environment of food and friendship.  Clearly, such gatherings help us deal with the bleakness of winter.  Christmas, like the other holidays, is most often about the people in your life. [Read more…]