People in Spain often open presents on Epiphany. The Feast of the Epiphany falls on January 6.Shutterstock Rather than unwrapping goodies on Christmas Day, most families in Spainopen their presentson January 6, orEpiphany, which is the day that the three wise men are said to have brought gif...
However, children who didn’t listen to their parents are visited byKrampus, a hairy demon who instead of treats leaves sticks, so that their parents can discipline them (It’s an old tradition, I don’t think that today, Croatian parents beat their kids with sticks) [1]. Decorating the...
There is a popular saying that Epiphany takes away all celebrations: L’epifania tutte le feste le porta via. “The Epiphany takes away all the celebrations”. This means that after Epiphany, people go back to the office. There is nothing else to celebrate! Thepresepe(nativity scene) Thepre...
“I understood that any true or lasting lifestyle change would require rigor, specificity, and accountability. Vague notions of ‘eating better’ or maybe ‘going to the gym more often’ just weren’t going to work. I needed an urgent and stringent plan. I needed to draw a line in the ...
small percussion instruments; decorating a Christmas boat (a tradition from islands that would welcome sailors back for Christmas); and the Blessing of the Waters (Epiphany) on 6th January (during which a priest throws a cross into the sea, river, or lake and swimmers dive in to retrieve it...
I know of some people who take them down the day after Christmas. Honestly, that is too soon, in my opinion. Some people will wait until after New Year's. I think that is pretty fair. My rule of thumb has been to wait until the Epiphany on January 6th, which marks the official en...
Theking cake traditiondates back hundreds of years and was originally made to celebrate Epiphany or Three Kings Day. Baking a tiny plastic baby into a king cake wasn’t common practice until the 1800s. Some say the baby represents Jesus. If you find the baby in a king cake, it's said...
It hasn’t all been difficult and sad. Case in point: I learned how to cut a mango. This was practically an epiphany. Usually, cutting these delicious tropical treats is a messy and disorganized affair and every time Islicemassacre one, I think to myself, “There has got to be a bette...
I came across the Parkinson’s Law recently, which is a ‘restatement’ of your epiphany – the more time you have to complete a task, the more time you will take to complete a task. This is most definitely true for me. LOL
all of us to be loved and have the right to love whoever we want those of us who want everyone’s kids to have a shot, not just the kids of people who are lucky if we continue to treat winning other people over as something that is either futile or just kind of happens on its ...