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John McCutcheon

25 Dec 2019

Christmas 2019

I’ll be out of the country for the next three weeks, visiting family and friends to the north of us, among other things, which I shall write about upon my return, mid January. In the meantime, I hope you’ll enjoy … Read More

Christmas in the trenches, Janet Givens author, John McCutcheon, My Annual Christmas Eve Post
19 Dec 2018

My Christmas Eve Post for 2018

How do you think of Christmas time? Over the past few decades, I’ve come to see winter as a time of peace. A time to pull inward; a time for personal reflection and a time to breath in the wonder and … Read More

December 25 1914, Janet Givens author, John McCutcheon, My Annual Christmas Eve Post, My name is Francis Tolliver, The Christmas Truce 1914
24 Dec 2017

My Annual Christmas Eve Post for 2017

For those of you fairly new to And So It Goes, I first discovered John McCutcheon’s song, Christmas in the Trenches, in 2013. It tells an amazing and long forgotten true story, one that I’m committed to sharing. I’ve been posting it every Christmas … Read More

1914, Christmas in the trenches, December 25, John McCutcheon, lyrics, My Annual Christmas Eve Post
23 Dec 2015

Annual Christmas Eve Story

  How the year has flown.  The following story is one I’ve shared before, first in 2013 and again in 2014.   It is a story that teaches us that peace can be found if individual men and women want it badly enough … Read More

Christmas in the trenches, John McCutcheon, My name is Francis Tolliver, The Christmas Eve truce, The Christmas Truce, The Day When Enemies Stopped Fighting
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LEAPFROG: How to hold a civil conversation in an uncivil era

“Janet’s LEAPFROG describes— in an accessible and fun way— the nuts and bolts of how to have a civil conversation…”

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At Home on the Kazakh Steppe:A Peace Corps Memoir

Praise from Kirkus Review

“…she writes engagingly … a sharp-eyed journalist. A worthwhile read for anyone with an interest in humanitarian work.”

At Home on the Kazakh Steppe, A Peace Corps Memoir, by Janet Givens
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