Jerry Nelson

We had a fabulous autumn weather-wise, nothing to complain about although that didn't prevent many of us from doing so. First it was too warm and too dry; then, when it started to rain, it was too cold and too wet. There's no pleasing some people.

We had a fabulous autumn weather-wise, nothing to complain about although that didn’t prevent many of us from doing so.

We all have ancestors. They may not be the ones we might have chosen, but there they are, and there's nothing we can do about it.

My wife and I recently took in our local parade of lights followed later that evening by watching a televised broadcast of “Rudolf The Red-Nosed Reindeer.” This means that it is now officially Christmastime.

For me, the only thing that would make this a Christmas trifecta would be to rewatch “A Charlie Brown Christmas.”

We had a fabulous autumn weather-wise, nothing to complain about although that didn’t prevent many of us from doing so.

Cold weather has arrived in our neck of the woods, the intense type of chill that hurts your face when you step outside. The mere act of going outdoors feels like being slapped.

Cold weather has arrived in our neck of the woods, the intense type of chill that hurts your face when you step outside.

‘Tis the yule season, which is vastly different than the mule season, mainly because nobody has ever been kicked by a yule. I don't think anyone has actually seen a yule, for that matter.

This Yuletide season has seemed a bit peculiar for my wife and me. Our impression that this was an off-kilter Christmas was mainly due to a summer and fall that passed in a blur of chemotherapy and radiation treatments and doctor's appointments to treat my tonsil cancer.