Christmas

As Christmas and the new year approach, I get nostalgic. I like to think back on good old childhood memories. For me those are the 1970s and ’80s.  I remember one Christmas, I was probably 7 years...

Christmas came early for Garden Gate Nursing Home residents in the form of holiday carriage rides led by two distinguished Clydesdales.

As I was looking online for ideas for holiday gifts, I was stunned to see so many bizarre ideas are out there. I mean truly bizarre.  One I saw was a wool throw blanket that looks like a piece of...

The holidays are here, and that means it’s time for the second-best advertising season of the year. Yes, I know it’s all consumerism designed to make me spend my hard-earned money, but I can’t help...

Nursing home employee bilks provider out of $100K in pay for hours never worked … Stunning Christmas light display at nursing home honors lost loved ones … Institutional support, face-to-face interactions...

When some residents had no gifts to unwrap one Christmas morning, the staff of Princeton Health Care Center decided to do something about it.

I love this time of year. Christmas is on its way. I especially love the holiday movie classics, “A Christmas Story,” “Planes, Trains and Automobiles,” “Miracle on 34th Street,” “White Christmas,”...

It’s that time of year again. You can’t walk into a grocery store, mall or even a quick mart without listening to Christmas carols.  I’ll admit I start listening to those Christmas carols right...

Unlike previous years, there are little or no postings on social media encouraging comments from “friends” on what they want to ask Santa to bring them. It is almost as if making public one’s heart’s...

‘Twas the morning of Christmas, when all through the buildingNo staff member was sitting, but everyone scurrying.The residents were washed and groomed with care,Knowing that visitors (finally) soon...