12 days of giveaways Archives - Suzanne Woods Fisher

12 Days of Giveaways: Day 12: Suzanne Woods Fisher

by Suzanne | Dec 12, 2017 | Fun

The Humble Cranberry There’s a beautiful wooden cranberry rake by my fireplace that I use to hold magazines, but my dad had used, as a boy growing up on Cape Cod, to harvest red cranberries from his childhood farm each fall. My dad would get a chuckle out of how...

12 Days of Giveaways: Day 11: Valerie Fraser Luesse

by Suzanne | Dec 11, 2017 | Fun

Like Two Trees in a Pod You never knew what might happen on our annual hunt for the family Christmas tree. I look around at all the beautifully manicured Christmas trees grown on farms near Birmingham, where I live—and the perfectly shaped, pre-lit artificial ones at...

12 Days of Giveaways: Day 10: Regina Jennings

by Suzanne | Dec 8, 2017 | Fun

Miss Laura Comes to Christmas When your grandparents own the Mansfield Livestock Auction in Mansfield, Missouri, you never know what you’re going to get for Christmas. There, they had a giant room that used to be the feed store. We kids called it the treasure room—the...

12 Days of Giveaways: Day 9: Shawn Smucker

by Suzanne | Dec 7, 2017 | Fun

Christmas Race Track There is the farmhouse. It is warm and old and the nighttime shadows shift in my peripheral vision. I turn quickly but never see what slips around the corner. There is the living room with worn carpet. There is the kitchen, and the mudroom, and...

12 Days of Giveaways: Day 8: Sarah Loudin Thomas

by Suzanne | Dec 6, 2017 | Fun

Celebrating Old Christmas I love me some Christmas traditions! When I was a child, Christmas included decorating sugar cookies, singing lots of carols in the car, cutting a live tree and then watching Dad wrangle tangled lights, hanging our stockings above the...