Article December 23, 2002 Issue

A Christmas tapestry

with contributions from Tami Moulton, Liselotte Arnold, Carina James, Ann L. Grauberger, Mary Kuster, Charles F. Scott

Our Mailbox Continues To Overflow with letters and articles in response to our invitation to readers to share some of the blessings they have received during seasons of Christmas, past and present. We have woven a few of them into a tapestry that we hope you will find heartwarming.

By Tami Moulton

Among the definitions of joy in Noah Webster's 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language is "the passion or emotion excited by the acquisition or expectation of good."