Preacher's Piece

So here we are - kind of in the middle of nowhere.

We had snow before Halloween this year, which meant my family was making Christmas plans very early. There’s something about snow that puts the romanticism into Christmas (for some people). Since we were already planning for Christmas, I suggested to my wife that I bring the pumpkins in from where she had strategically placed them on either side of the driveway and along the sidewalk, back when the grass was green and the leaves were still on the trees. “It’s not even Thanksgiving yet,” she said, “we can’t bring the pumpkins in.” Now I get to...