Tag: holiday

Historical Holidays at Omni Bedford Springs Resort

Karyn Locke
Omni Bedford Springs REsort

 I love old Christmas movies. You know the ones, they have that essence of a simpler time when the holiday season was all about family and food, singing Christmas carols around a fire, and, of course, decorating. They always showed live Christmas trees adorned with silver and gold, red and green. Not only were the halls decked, but the men and women were as well, dressed in their fancy clothing, ready for a family get together. When my family and I walked into the lobby of Omni Bedford Springs Resort…

Thinking Out of the Box and A Generational Train

Karyn Locke

My husband loves to tinker and repair everything he can get his hands on. Heck, he loves to disassemble new things, check out the innards, and then put them back together but that’s a completely different blog post. When he was a boy, his grandparents gave him his first tool box with which he tore apart his bicycle and put it back together. I think he was six. The train in the photo above was his father’s when he was a boy. It has been sitting in a closet for…