Lisa's Christmas Card

The debate over real-versus-fake Christmas trees has gone on, I'm guessing, since the invention of artificial trees (or at least since they made their way into a lot of homes, since most people accept the fact that fake trees exist in offices, stores, malls, and wherever real trees aren't practical or fire-safe enough. When I was a kid members of my family were private "horrified" when my young-married cousin got a silver tree (complete with rotating light wheel that made it turn colors) and...

In some families (or between some couples) everyone agrees on whether Christmas tree lights should be colored or white, and so in those households there is no Christmas Tree Lights war. Then, however, there are those households in which the war (or at least minor, secret, longing and/or resentment) results when someone wants colored lights on the tree and someone else wants all white lights.This can happen when someone has grown up with tree lights "always" being colored or "always" being...

I put this site together last year around this time, because it seemed to me that sometimes people can use a little boost when it comes to coming up with some Christmas spirit. As I said in the introduction, there's lots of merriment around for the "merry". Sometimes it can seem as if the not-so-merry" (regardless of why they're not merry) are overlooked - driven "into the closet". Most of us, if we're old enough, have had the occasional Christmas when finding some spirit was pretty...