Welcome to the Isthmus of Christmas!

This website is a place for you to play with new feelings and thoughts about the Christmas Season by reading and sharing stories. You may share the stories you find here but please let people know where they came from. If you have a short story about the Christmas season that you want to share maybe this is the place for it. Please contact me with stories or any other ideas for content or links. I will be happy to respond to you!

I believe that you create whatever meaning the Christmas season has for you from the thoughts and stories that you have in your mind. Every moment you spend contemplating a lovely thought, a warm-hearted story, something that feels just plain good, is a step toward inner peace.

This is the first year for this website, and there are two stories. One is about the afterlife of a spider called Harold and the other is a very short story called The Isthmus of Christmas.

Happy holidays!

Richard Sleigh

P. S. One of these stories is available here as a Christmas card. I have had many requests over the years for this card and one of the reasons I put this site together is to make the card available.

P.P.S. Yes, that really is my last name!