Our mailbox has been filling with Christmas cards, and we normally wait until December 25 to open them all. But I accidentally opened one card. Well, maybe it wasn’t an accident. The beautiful writing. The heartfelt honesty. The confessional truth. The words stirred...
I almost sent my Christmas cards this year, then I remembered. Steeped in a darkness so thick, so foggy, I could not breathe. The Christmas everyone else celebrated, I mourned. Loss of youth. Loss of health. Loss of innocence. My first Christmas draining toxic liquid...
Many of the Christmas cards and holiday update letters are collages of the years’ accolades and accomplishments, extravagant purchases, as well as promotions and photos from one-in-a-lifetime trips. But what do you do say when your year has been marked by loss or...
