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More holiday greetings
Have you realized that Christmas is exactly three months away? Have you begun thinking about what you’ll put in your Christmas letter? Or gearing up to read the dozens of letters you will receive...
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Yule log me out
Tick. Tick. Tick. If you haven’t noticed, there are exactly three weeks until Christmas. I have trouble hearing carols above the ticking away of the annoying clock against which I work fiercely to...
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To the letter
I don’t know about you, but I sense an uncomfortable tension between traditional etiquette and contemporary reality. Nowhere is it more palpable to me than on a Christmas card envelope. Every year I...
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Dechristmatization
This weekend the last of the Christmas decorations will likely come down at my house. Or, more accurately, go up—to the attic. We dragged our spruce skeleton out before New Year’s. I am guessing it was...
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Worst wishes
Words to consider as we face another season of long lists and short tempers: In the season of good will, If you find you’re wishing ill To those who help you to prepare, It’s time to stop and get some...
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Epiphany
January. I don’t have much use for it; hate it, really. January is a dark and cold reminder that we’ve eaten too much, drunk too much, spent too much, perhaps slept too little, for way too long. Boom....
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