Doug Howe

Doug’s 12 Days of Christmas: Nine …Ladies Dancing?!

Welcome to another of this year’s Doug’s 12 Days of Christmas, at the intersection of the song, the children’s game, tradition, culture, and Christ-mas. If you’ve missed a few, check your in-box from yesterday, or ping [email protected]. Today. “Nine…” What do you think of when you hear “ladies dancing?” Perhaps the Radio City Rockettes? The

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Welcome to Monday Moments, 12 Days of Christmas style. If you missed the first one yesterday, check last evening’s in-box. Today, it’s a current cultural version of “Eleven Piper’s Piping…”

The “Twelve Days of Christmas,” before it was a song, or a children’s book, or a tradition, or a rhyme, …it started as a memory-and-forfeit game in Europe. When your number came, you had to repeat the rhyme for the number. The larks with each number – today’s is Piper’s Piping – were harmless, and

Welcome to Monday Moments, 12 Days of Christmas style. If you missed the first one yesterday, check last evening’s in-box. Today, it’s a current cultural version of “Eleven Piper’s Piping…” Read More »

Good Morning Aviators!! …What does Maverick, Top Gun, and Tom Cruise have to do with the 12 Days of Christmas? …I’ll get to that.

Welcome to a bonus series for Monday Moments leaders and friends: The 12 Days of Christmas. I hope these short boosts make each day of this Christmas season a little more inspiring, a little less commercialized, a little more positive, a little less of a grind, and a little more spiritual, as we all seek

Good Morning Aviators!! …What does Maverick, Top Gun, and Tom Cruise have to do with the 12 Days of Christmas? …I’ll get to that. Read More »