by Bernadette Nason | Dec 12, 2014 | Uncategorized
SEASONAL STORY-TIME AT LAKE TRAVIS COMMUNITY LIBRARY Yesterday, I told stories at Lake Travis Community Library, one of my favorite places to tell. Morgan the librarian and I have been working together for many years, ever since the library was in a strip mall and I...
by Bernadette Nason | Dec 11, 2014 | Uncategorized
BRER RABBIT’S CHRISTMAS — Traditional American Folktale One winter morning, Brer Fox stole into Brer Rabbit’s garden and dug up a big sackful of his best carrots. Brer Rabbit didn’t see him as he was visiting his friend Brer Bear at the time. When he got...
by Bernadette Nason | Dec 10, 2014 | Uncategorized
ROBIN HOOD — A PANTOMIME IN DUBAI Dubai Drama Group Poster for ROBIN HOOD, December 1991 In the summer of 1990, I was invited to join the Dubai Drama Group. This didn’t come a moment too soon. I needed something to do, besides going to pubs, parties and...
by Bernadette Nason | Dec 9, 2014 | Uncategorized
In England, snowfall is a regular occurrence; in Libya or Dubai, not so much! In central Texas, we sometimes get lucky and see half-an-inch of late-season snow which lasts for just a few hours. I am therefore especially fond of poetry about winter weather....
by Bernadette Nason | Dec 8, 2014 | Uncategorized
I’M DREAMING OF A GREEN CHRISTMAS by J.P. McEvoy* from A CHRISTMAS ALMANAC (Gerard & Patricia Del Re) That’s right. Green! Who started all this breast-beating for a white Christmas? Irving Berlin.** What was he doing at the time? Having a green...
by Bernadette Nason | Dec 7, 2014 | Uncategorized
A TUNA CHRISTMAS AUSTIN, TEXAS 1992 A Tuna Christmas at the Paramount Theatre, Austin, Texas I arrived in Austin, Texas, not long before Christmas 1992. In an effort to “get in the mood,” I bought a ticket to a show called A TUNA CHRISTMAS, playing at the...
by Bernadette Nason | Dec 6, 2014 | Uncategorized
MR. FEZZIWIG’S BALL A CHRISTMAS CAROL by Charles Dickens “Yo Ho! my boys,” said Fezziwig. “No more work to-night! Christmas Eve, Dick! Christmas, Ebenezer! Let’s have the shutters up!” cried old Fezziwig with a sharp clap of his hands, “before a man can say...
by Bernadette Nason | Dec 5, 2014 | Uncategorized
A VERY TEENAGE CHRISTMAS 25th December 1971 Here I am at age 14, on Christmas morning, in Winchester, Hampshire, England. I have opened all my gifts and I am wearing them. I was taught that you always dress immediately in anything you’ve been given as a gift to...
by Bernadette Nason | Dec 4, 2014 | Uncategorized
CHRISTMAS AT THE JEBEL ALI HOTEL, UAE December 1987Many of you know that I worked at the Jebel Ali Hotel, just outside of Dubai City in the UAE from 1987 to 1989. Over the past couple of years, I have mentioned in my December blogging the brilliant Christmas...
by Bernadette Nason | Dec 3, 2014 | Uncategorized
THE CHRISTMAS CAKE December 2011 was a truly shabby month in my neck of the woods. I’m not a naturally depressed person — though I grant you it’s easy to get despondent in the days leading up to Christmas, particularly during a historical era of...
