Welcome to Wednesday Writing Essentials. Today December 26: Holidays Around the World will be Featured.
January 2: New Years Around the World.
By Holidays, it can be any Winter Holiday from your country, faith or culture - if you are in the Southern Hemisphere you can also do Christmas in December or even Winter Solstice in June. So this includes Kwanzaa, Ramadan, (fall or winter) Chanukkah.
A link to Christmas celebrations around the world, from Gather member, ashish.
Christmas around the world - slide show
Slovenian Father Christmas, Dedek Mraz
Display in Brazillian mall
Brazillian Christmas Tree
Swedish Artist Carl Larrson, So It's Christmas Again, 1907
Self explanatory
Christmas Pudding
Chocolate Yule Log
Previous Wednesday's Writing Essentials, author bio/lit reviews:
Wednesday Writing Essentials: Winter Solstice, Holidays Around the World
Wednesday Writing Essentials: Using Your Senses - Pavarotti Lives on in Paul Potts
Wednesday Writing Essentials: Flannery O'Connor Lives On
Dostoevksy/Raskolnikov: Guilty, Guilty Guilty
Harper Lee
Anne Sexton
Tennessee Williams' Kowalski's Stellaaa
Sylvia Plath
Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener
JD Salinger's Catcher in the Rye
Faulkner
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About Kathryn
Kathryn Esplin Oleski kathryneo.gather.com
KathrynEsplin-Oleski was raised in Salt Lake City, but moved to Montreal withher family,where she finished high school and college. Kathryn has a BA in English Literature from McGill University and a Master of Sciencein Journalism (MSJ) from the Medill School of Journalism, at Northwestern University, in Evanston, Ill.
Kathryn's articles have appeared in The Montreal Gazette, The Globe and Mail, and Kathryn covered Utah politics at Medill from Washington, D.C. for The Ogden Standard-Examiner. She has also written on business, computers, health, living, education, arts, travel and books.
She freelanced for numerous computer/business publications, including a stringer story for Newsweek magazine on graft in the music industry.
Kathryn worked as a news/feature reporter, and Features Editor for International Data Group (IDG) for several years, and then continued to writing freelance computer/business articles.
Kathryn copyedited a technical book, Raggett on HTML 4.0, Second Edition, published by Addison-Wesley Longman, New York and London, 1998.
Kathryn's fiction, The Quill Speaks, was published in Pieceworks, in 2003.
Kathryn was a finalist in the Gather-Borders-Mitch Albom contest:"Times My Mom Stood Up for Me:" My Mom Stood Up for Me During the Last Days of My Childhood.
Copyright © 2007, Kathryn Esplin-Oleski
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Comments: 28
Twas the Night Before Christmas in the Nursing Home
Richard, Yule Log Food Group it is. I always thought Chocolate was a group of its own. Should be.
Anne B. Grote: Yep, looks really delicious. I didn't make these.
Yesterday I came back from SF and saw your prompt..Thanks for giving such nice topics..
Dropping in for your chat Kathryn, tomorrow.
Vince Flynn sometime, eh?
Next week - is New Year's Around the World. Do you want to write something for that one, too?