Category Archives: Christmas story

Read The Spirit and ‘Seydou’s Christmas Tree’

[paypal-donation] Two years ago, David Crumm of ReadThe Spirit.com featured my essay on the experience my wife and I had with Christmas in Africa. David’s enthusiasm for that piece — written many years ago — encouraged me to publish the … Continue reading

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Tacky or not, here come the ads!

By Joel Thurtell A friend told me that I shouldn’t promote my books on JOTR. Using this space for commercial purposes would be kind of, well, tacky. I’ve been thinking about it. First, we removed the amazon ads more than … Continue reading

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Ms. Kitty’s miracle

I thought our story, a true one, about our family’s loss and later recovery of our cat, Putty-Tat, couldn’t be beat. Until I heard Donna MacDonald’s equally true story of what happened to her family’s cat, Ms. Kitty, shortly before … Continue reading

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