December is an exciting time of the year, with all kinds of traditions that families take part in. They range from normal ones like lighting candles or stringing lights to decorate a house, to weird ...

It seems no matter our history, occasion or tradition, we find some way to connect all our religious and secular holidays to some thoroughly unrelated symbol. Be it the resurrection Easter Bunny, the ...

As a young child living in Virginia, I recall kids going door to door selling sprigs of mistletoe in the weeks before Christmas. My mother always bought some and hung it along with some holly over a ...

Some of my earliest childhood memories of holidays include my mother purchasing mistletoe to hang in a doorway during Christmas. It was not as important a decoration as the Christmas tree, but it was ...

Now that the leaves have mostly fallen, we can see the mistletoe that lives there year-round. Did you know that hundreds of years ago it was believed all the energy that was in the tree was ...