L. D. Christianson

Happy New Year’s Eve if you are reading this the day it’s posted. Otherwise, Happy 2025! I hope everyone had a great Christmas. I was...

It's that time of year! Thanksgiving is right around the corner, and before you even start digesting all the turkey and pumpkin pie, it...

This is not my family. It's a free stock photo, but it works with the theme. “In my day, we had to walk miles in the snow to school...”...

This week's blog post is my November Brought to Mind column, linked below. This month, I wrote about my love for seasonal decorations as...

(Ok, “journey” would probably be a better word, but that’s cliché in the blog-o-sphere, not alliterative, and cannot be interpreted as a...

Well, sometimes a small miscommunication can have positive results. If you've spoken to me or looked at my "Other Writing" page in the...

In my Ostinato post, I discussed my reluctance to practice piano as a kid. Now I want to share another piano memory, this time about...

Some of you may have noticed I didn’t publish a post last week. My usual posting day fell right in the middle of a pretty bad spot of...

April showers bring may flowers. Except in Texas where the weather does whatever it wants and all the maxims in the world won’t change...

This blog might not exist if my mom hadn’t read to me every night from birth to teenagerhood. Maybe I would have still fallen in love...

I’ve been playing the piano for nearly 15 years. In that time, I took lessons off and on from 3 different teachers. They led me through...

Have you ever wished you could travel back in time? Not because there was some grave error you wanted to warn your past self to...

I know Leap Day isn’t an official holiday or anything. Despite having done online college for so long, I am still aware of what actual...

Well, I’m a day late and a dollar short, but I couldn’t let Valentine’s Day pass completely unacknowledged. Seeing Valentine’s décor go...