Our family holidays are special, in every sense of the word. Often, it seems, there’s a whole lot of sitting around and waiting. Case in point, it’s Christmas afternoon and we have yet to crack open the bulging stockings. Two of my brothers are currently wrapping presents in the basement of our sister’s house, usingContinue reading “Alt Christmas”
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The War on Christmas: Fight back, for Peace
When someone says something so subversive and offensive as “happy holidays,” they might as well be blowing up your church. It’s straight-up religious persecution. I mean, I know, I know, the root of “holidays” is “holy days,” so in a way there’s still the acknowledgement of something non-secular there, but it’s too vague. Because ChristianityContinue reading “The War on Christmas: Fight back, for Peace”
Ghost of Christmas past
This is the third Christmas I have spent away from my own family. The first was in 2001, in East Berlin, when I was 20 years old. I was studying abroad in France, and I managed to procure an invitation from a German boy exactly three years my senior who had visited my family inContinue reading “Ghost of Christmas past”
Noel
“Get up, get up! It’s CHRISTMAS!” Bess rolls over. “I’ll get up when the boys get up.” Isaiah, who is 11, runs next door “Guys, get up! It’s after 9!” “We’re growing. We’ll get up when the girls get up.” “I’m up,” I say, on Isaiah’s heels. Here it is, the lawful hour of ChristmasContinue reading “Noel”
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