I have not been good at Christmas this year. Yesterday, I finally faced up to the fact that I would need to de-junk my spare room for my family. And put up the tree.
Neither of these things is inherently difficult. The tree especially was in an known and accessible location. It’s small–four feet–and prelit.
I don’t [...]
I’ve been driving around with a chocolate penguin (boxed) in the back seat of my car for 2 weeks.
There are many things I like about the US holiday season, even with the downsides of weird stress, holiday spending, single-religion dominance, and having a bunch of specialness crammed into about 45 days so that there are few free days off from work until May.
I appreciate the way it injects some color and liveliness into [...]
