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MORE FROM CHRISTMAS 2025

Why would a baby boomer blogger want something more from Christmas 2025? Every writer knows why, with thanks to Charles Dickens. Now you do too. Merry Christmas   It has been said that Charles Dickens invented Christmas. This, of course, is not true. It is more correct to say that with his 1843 masterpiece, A […]

DOCTOR SAWBONES? WHY SAWBONES?

What does a Doctor Sawbones do? One thing they do is install that gleaming spike in the top image. It’s a hip bone. The doctor makes it work by sawing the leg bone, working the piece in, and lining the hip bone with a new socket joint. At six days out, the immediate danger has […]