Kathryn Page Camp

  My Christmas present to you is a story by Raymond MacDonald Alden. I previously printed it on my blog on December 22, 2014. Why the Chim...

  Since 2018, we have made it a practice to create our Christmas cards using an image from that year’s travels, with one exception that I’ll...

  In 2006, Roland and I visited the ruins of Ephesus in Turkey. While we were at the nearby museum, we saw a broken statue of Caesar Augustu...

  With businesses decorating for the holidays, I decided to print a short children’s story that I wrote almost twenty years ago. Enjoy. ...

  The fifth stanza of the version of “Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming” that we are use today was either written or translated by John C. Mattes...

Here is Harriet Reynolds Krauth’s translation of stanza 4: This flower, whose fragrance tender With sweetness fills the air, Dispels w...

  The third and fourth stanzas of “Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming” were translated into English by Harriet Reynolds Krauth in 1875, almost twe...

  Like the first, the second stanza of “Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming” was translated into English by Theodore Baker in 1894. Here is his tra...

  This Advent season I’m doing a series about one of my favorite traditional Christmas carols, “Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming.” The fifteenth...

I make my own Christmas cards, often using a photo I took during that year’s vacation. My card for 2019 highlights one of the reliefs...

Christmas is about Christ’s birth, but it is also about His death and resurrection, and we can’t separate those events. He came as a bab...

Christmas is family and presents and parties and . . . Yes, those are big parts of the season for some of us, but all of them would be m...

Several weeks ago, Marni Jacobson wrote a column chiding people who decorate their Christmas tree the same way every year. It reminded m...