Christmas is a Season! 2009 is a collection of short stories and essays by writers across the country. Because the holiday season is an emotionally charged time, the writers have explored the terrain of feelings, activities, discoveries, events, and memories associated with Christmas. The stories and essays are full of surprises: a pagan celebration, a Santa School transformation, a dog gaining heroic status, a teenager receiving the Christmas spirit, despite herself. Great joy, great longings, much laughter, some sadness, and some regrets -- the stories in Christmas is a Season! 2009 have all of this and more. Stir up a cup of hot cocoa, put a log on the fire, and pull up a comfy chair. Take a few minutes out of the Christmas rush to relax and examine Christmas while walking in a few other pairs of shoes!
 
Table of Contents
2 Theodore Pitsios (Short Story) Praying for Marigoula
16 Mary Anne Wright (Short Story) Haley’s Gift
24 Terry Wright (Short Story) Christmas at the Burger-Box
32 Joan Stidham Nist (Personal Essay) A Depression Christmas in Paradise
40 Mary Popham (Short Story) Home for Christmas – Bardstown, Kentucky, 1910
50 Terry Rozum (Personal Essay) Christmas Dinner for One
58 Tracy Hurley (Short Story) What You Need Most
76 Liz McCormick (Personal Essay) The Christmas Camera
80 Kathleen Thompson (Short Story) Finding the Lord
94 Wanda Wood (Short Story) Rubicon viii
106 Hazel Polly Pope (Personal Essay) The Christmas Range Wars
112 Irene B. McDonald (Short Story) Winter Light
122 Mahala Church (Short Story) Anything But Traditional
130 Stefanie Wass (Personal Essay) Christmas Elf
136 J.D. Frost (Short Story) The Snow Angel
148 Delores (Dee) Jordan (Short Story) Burning of the Yule Log
158 Hillene Deaton (Personal Essay) His Hands
164 Dixon Hearne (Short Story) A Cockeyed Christmas
176 CJ Petterson (Short Story) Hobbes House
194 Jean Loeb Reiner (Short Story) Dear Santa
202 Kay Grafe (Personal Essay) The Worst of Christmases, the Best of Christmases
212 Joyce Sterling Scarbrough (Short Story) Journey of a Thousand Miles ix
223 Editor’s Choice From Christmas is a Season! 2008
224 Jen Calder (Short Story) Christmas Dinner
230 Mahala Church (Personal Essay) Wonders Never Cease
242 Joan Stidham Nist (Personal Essay) Memory of the Spirit of a Christmas Past
248 C. D. Mitchell (Personal Essay) The Tree