A play kitchen, a late Christmas Eve night, and a seemingly magical development played out a quarter-century ago, writes Dane ...

The clock was fairly new when it chimed long ago during the announcement on my grandparents’ parlor radio that Hitler’s ...

Finally realizing I was hearing my own small Christmas miracle early, I stopped cursing that cute-in-the-catalog-pink-pretend ...

Then something strange happened. The clock sitting on our mantle began to chime. I didn’t notice it at first. There’s nothing all that strange about a clock chiming. It was a noise I had heard ...