One Minute Past Christmas - Softcover

The story of a Greenbrier County, West Virginia, family in which a grandfather and his granddaughter share a special ability -- they call it a gift -- that enables them to briefly witness each year a miraculous gathering in the sky. What they see begins at precisely one minute past Christmas and fills them with as much relief as it does wonder. But they worry that the "gift" -- which they cannot reveal to anyone else -- will die with them because it has been passed to no other relative for forty-four years.

Dr. George T. Arnold is a professor emeritus in the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communications at Marshall University. He is the author of scores of professional and academic articles, and his communications skills textbook/resource book, Media Writer's Handbook, a guide to common writing and editing problems, is in its sixth edition with McGraw-Hill and has been used at more than 300 colleges and universities in the United States and abroad. He has bachelor's and master's degrees from Marshall University and a Ph.D. from Ohio University. Regina Jeffers has worn many hats over her lifetime: daughter, student, military brat, wife, mother, grandmother, teacher, tax preparer, journalist, choreographer, Broadway dancer, theatre director, history buff, grant writer, media literacy consultant, and award-winning author. Living outside of Charlotte, NC, Jeffers writes novels that take the ordinary and adds a bit of mayhem, while mastering tension in her own life with a bit of gardening and the exuberance of her “grand joys.”