Twelve Days Of Christmas – On The Sixth Day
Posted on Sunday, December 30th, 2012
Welcome to my Twelve Days of Christmas Giveaway!
I’m having a little fun tying a bit of my old catechism and Christmas into an introduction and a chance to win the fun book I am so happy to be a part of:
Tangerine Tango.
In this book, twelve women writers have gathered together to share stories of life, love, loss, pain, pleasure… so many moments and memories.
And, I thought, what better way to share stories from these twelve writers than with a story about another twelve stories.
“The Twelve Days of Christmas” starts liturgically on Christmas Day and ends on the Feast of the Epiphany. Symbolism has always been used, in every religion, to explain doctrine. I’m not a theologian or a Bible scholar… far from it. I just find this interesting and meaningful. Click on this link for a quick explanation of “The Twelve Days of Christmas” as a catechism lesson. According to the source, Catholic.net, today teaches:
- “Six geese a laying” are the Six Commandments of the Church or the six days of creation.
As a Catholic who learned her catechism, this is all very helpful. But, it’s also a good excuse to procrastinate in my family. We rarely get all our gifts together before Christmas. Instead, we use the church’s liturgical season, the Twelve Days of Christmas, to stretch out our shopping and to drag out the season. It works for us!
So, here’s how I would like to stretch out this Christmas season. I am going to share an excerpt from the book Tangerine Tango every day for the next twelve days – The Twelve Days of Christmas. In each excerpt, I hope you’ll find something to intrigue you to want to learn more.
Oh, did I mention a chance to win?
After you read the excerpt from Tangerine Tango, be sure to comment with your thoughts. At the end of the Twelve Days, I’ll throw all the names in a hat and draw a name to win a printed copy of Tangerine Tango. Your name will be entered each time you comment, so comment often! Now, enjoy this short excerpt…
The Flapper
by
Chris Rosen
“Signs are for sheep.” My mother could always find her way in, around, over or under a problem. She encouraged us to think for ourselves, never to take “No” for an answer, and to always hit back harder when faced with a bully. She did not suffer fools at all. When Nell
“I’ll not only walk again, I’ll dance on your grave!” After losing her husband to a brain tumor and surviving a near-fatal car accident in that same year— 1949— this is what she had to say to her doctors. They told her she would never walk again. The engine of the car had crushed her beautiful dancer’s legs— the legs that had won many a late-night dance contest with the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra. There would be no wheelchair in her future. And there was no relative to care for me, a 10-month-old baby. My grandmother was holding me in the car, and she and my older sister were each in a coma. Nell took me home, and raised me as her own.
(Meet Chris Rosen at MountainMornings.com)
To keep reading, please click on and order your own copy of Tangerine Tango – available both as a cute paperback or as a download. (Proceeds after expenses are donated to aid research for the cure for Huntington disease.)
And don’t forget to leave a comment below for a chance to win your very own printed copy of Tangerine Tango!
I’ll be back tomorrow with the next day’s excerpt. Until then, enjoy the Season!
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What a story! If they are all like this, I don’t doubt this book will fly off the shelves.
Thanks, Tess. We had a lot of fun gathering our stories together for this cute little book. Be sure to take a look at the writers’ blogs. Isn’t it fun sharing??!!