The Working File

At the risk of sounding like too much of a grouch, I nevertheless want to express my disappointment at most of the cards my family received these past few weeks.  Very few mentioned Christmas at all, much less had any explicit religious content.  This is especially unsettling because most of the people who sent us [...]

“The great majority of people will go on observing forms that cannot be explained; they will keep Christmas Day with Christmas gifts and Christmas benedictions; they will continue to do it; and some day suddenly wake up and discover why.”
G. K. Chesterton, “On Christmas”, Generally Speaking

If you’ve got a problem with artificial, easy-open, pre-lit Christmas Trees, then you’ve got a problem with me.