Kristin Johnson

About Kristin Johnson

Kristin Johnson is the co-author of Christmas Cookies Are For Giving: Stories, Recipes and Tips for Making Heartwarming Gifts, available from Tyr Publishing. Makes a perfect Christmas gift, and the most perfect christmas gifts of all--cookies! Christmas Cookies Are for Giving (ISBN: 0-9723473-9-9) is hardcover, 208 pages, and features full-color photography of each recipe. A downloadablemedia kit is available at our Web site, www.christmascookiesareforgiving.com, or you can e-mail the publisher (info@tyrpublishing.com) to receive a printed media kit and sample copy of the book.

Low on Cash for Christmas? Try Gifts in a Jar

Time is money, and right now you don't have either the time or the money to answer the call of the shopping mall at Christmas. The only way you can show your friends love, peace on earth, goodwill towards men is by shopping at Macy's, so...
Date Posted: October 29, 2004

“Christmas For One: Mental Health Over the Holidays"

My dear friend, poet Dessa Byrd Reed, often spends holidays alone as a widow. However, she doesn’t see this, as many people often do, as a depressing circumstance.
Date Posted: October 29, 2004

Taking Back Christmas

John Grisham wrote a book called SKIPPING CHRISTMAS. Amazon.com reports: “John Grisham turns a satirical eye on the overblown ritual of the festive holiday season, and the result is Skipping Christmas, a modest but funny novel about the tyranny...
Date Posted: October 29, 2004

A Dash of Cinnamon, A Pinch of the Past, A Smidgen of the Future

Close your eyes and remember December, the smell of cinnamon in your mother's or grandmother's kitchen and the warm scent of dough baking in the oven. Imagine opening the oven door and, with assistance, taking out the heated cookie sheet.
Date Posted: October 29, 2004

How Does Santa Make Out His List? (humor)

I’ll let you in on a secret: I know Santa Claus. And I received a letter from him with his Christmas list.“Dear Kristin,“Thank you for the homemade cookies last year.
Date Posted: October 29, 2004

Real Women Love Martha

Martha Stewart will make sugar cookies and a whopping pitcher of lemonade out of lemons after she’s finished serving her sentence at “Camp Cupcake” and house arrest. Why?
Date Posted: October 29, 2004

Use H-O-L-L-Y to Beat Christmas Cooking Stress

What does holly, that untidy traditional greenery you just have to festoon your house with every year, have to do with not tearing your hair out before it's even Thanksgiving? Plenty. You can use H-O-L-L-Y to help you get organized.1.
Date Posted: October 29, 2004

Let's NOT Talk Turkey

The carving. The leftovers. The endless stuffing. Actually, you love the stuffing, cranberries and turkey trimmings. However, it's been seven years and you know your family will throw the turkey out the window if they have to eat the bird one...
Date Posted: October 29, 2004

REVIEW: TV Critic Reviews… “Higglytown Heroes”

As aunt of a preschooler and an aspiring voiceover actress (I knew all those hours of watching Bugs Bunny would come in handy), I know all the kids’ shows as well as every kids’ DVD out there.
Date Posted: October 29, 2004

I Just Love It!

You know the scenario. You're sitting at the family Christmas gathering and your ten-year-old opens one of Aunt Martha's itchy homemade sweaters.
Date Posted: October 07, 2004