Tied Up Today

Today's tie helps celebrate National Poinsettia Day ! It was created by Congress in 2002. The flower was introduced from Mexico into the...

Today combines Thanksgiving Sunday, Christ the King Sunday and "Almost-Advent" Sunday. Beth is playing organ for the service at Ri...

 I'm wearing poinsettias and blue and purple for the first Sunday in Advent. In many churches today the theme is "Hope" as we ...

For the first Sunday in Advent 2019 I'm wearing my poinsettias tie. My shirt is blue, which is the approved alternate color for Advent (...

First Sunday in Advent 17 -- this is the opening of Liturgical Year B (in the standard Western lectionary ). My tie features poinsettias, a ...

For the third Sunday in Advent, I'm wearing my tie featuring poinsettias. The poinsettia is perhaps the favorite flower for the Advent/C...

Yesterday I celebrated Dr. Seuss' birthday, which postponed recognition of Joel Roberts Poinsett until today. Poinsett, who was born on...

Poinsettias on my tie match the decor at church on the fourth Sunday in Advent!

Second Sunday in Advent 2013 -- and we get to have lunch with Mallie again! (She will be 5 months old tomorrow.) Blue is the alternate color...

Happy Poinsettia Day! Honoring Joel Roberts Poinsett, who died on this date in 1851. He was the first U. S. diplomatic minister to Mexico. I...

This is most likely my final post for 2010. On this First Day of Christmas--which is counted by some as the Second Day of Christmas--I am we...

This is the first Sunday in Advent, and we are "hanging the greens" during this morning's worship service at Nicholasville Pre...

I wish I had a tie appropriate to honor the birthday of Theodore Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss, in 1904. Instead I must draw attention to the 1779 b...

Today is the first Sunday in Advent 2008. At Nicholasville Presbyterian Church the morning service featured the "hanging of the greens...