For a few years, I was writing these every Christmas for the Ryans' Christmas Party. It was hard to distribute them by e-mail or in print, so now I'll archive the ones I wrote and keep adding more as time permits. If it's July or December, then, Merry Christmas.
One of the Ryans will have to write about "The Laz-Z-Boy." I only saw the tail-end of that Christmas.
Joe Essid July 2018
image: Louis, Joe Sr., Joe Jr., and Margaret Bolton Essid at Paul and Ann Denby's, Feb. 1965.
Stories:Â
Mrs. Angelo (Christmas 2010)
Irish Stew & New York Strip (December 2018)
How Did it Survive? (Christmas 2019)
Songs and Sayings (January 2020)
Traveling, Especially at Christmas (December 2021)