To prove just how excited we are about the festive season, and also our commitment to making the yuletide gay, we bring you part two of our author exclusive. Ylva authors from all around the world discuss what the [...]
New Year’s resolutions. Oh, how I hate them. Wait, should I start a blog post like that? Ah, well. I can’t help it. I think we all know we make these well-intentioned statements, resolved and a little liquored up [...]
Ylva author Lee Winter finds a few of the western world’s Christmas traditions more than a little head scratching. Here, she rails at all the silly things we do at this time of year that make absolutely no sense [...]
In Manhattan, where I live, Chinese restaurants are mobbed on December 25th. This is because in days past these were the only restaurants open on Christmas. The other establishments open that day were movie theaters. And so it became [...]
When Ylva’s publisher Astrid Ohletz asked me early in November if I would be willing to contribute a holiday blog, I eagerly said yes. After all, I love the holidays. When I think back, it’s not that they’ve always [...]
The Christmas holiday in our house officially starts when we pull the decorations out of storage from the garage. For a couple of days the house is a mess and then, like magic, our home is transformed into a [...]
Midwinter celebrations of light, in many varieties, have long been part of human culture, but Christmas is unique in that the Christ is the incarnate symbol of the light in the darkness. And, while I have not been a [...]
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