Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

wonderful winter and Christmas books this holiday season. Reading Olive the Other Reindeer, by Vivian Walsh and J. Otto Seibold, could become a Christmas tradition for parents with young children. Olive is a dog who suddenly thinks she might really be a reindeer after misunderstanding the lyrics of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer." She travels to the North Pole to help Santa and even "flies" with the other reindeer for some Christmas Eve adventures. The story's premise may need to be explained…

Santa’s Coming To Town Christmas time, a time usually in connotation with joy, family, milk and cookies, and Christmas classics such as A Charlie Brown’s Christmas and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. As a young boy or girl, everyone has their stories of Santa Claus, from wanting to touch his beard or telling him what you want for Christmas. Christmas has grown into not just celebrating Jesus’ birthday (if that’s what you believe in), but instead as a holiday for lots of gifts. The idea for…

Ask an average teenager what they know about sexual assault, and they may refer to “locker room talk” or dramatized rape scenes in movies. It is misconceptions like these that can drive a victim further into seclusion, because their situation is so unknown to the average person, leaving them in solitary. In the United States alone, one in five women and one in seventy-five men will be raped at some point throughout their lifetime, yet only 37% of these incidents are reported to authorities…

I Never Stopped Enjoying Stop-Motion Animation: My viewing of anything with stop motion. Imagine this. You are Twelve years old. It is a hot Saturday afternoon. You have just finished mowing the neighbor’s yard. You have just earned yourself Ten dollars. Yes. $10.00. To buy yourself a Corgi toy vehicle based on Space:1999. You sit down for a cold glass of water. Not soda. Soda is a rare drink in this house that you sit. And before you go get on your bicycle to ride and ride almost three miles…

With each round of the seasonal carousel comes the holidays, which come and go like old friends. They bring memories of past, and promise of new traditions to come. Whether it is winter the incandescent branches of pine are adorned in glittering glass.. Easter, when children scatter in search of painted eggs. Halloween, where children come knocking late in the evening, or thanksgiving-- thankfully eating until you almost yack. Every holiday is filled with their own unique traditions from the…