3 Tips for a Peaceful Christmas

Christmas is coming, friends. Ah, the food, the turkey, the pumpkin pie, the beets! Okay, not the beets so much, but you get the idea. Someone said there’s going to be a toy shortage this year. “Hurry and stock up!” I told him we had a Christmas toy shortage every single year when I was…

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A Christmas Whapping

My older brothers had a favourite Christmas tradition. They used to save up cardboard tubes from rolls of wrapping paper and whap me with them until my mother made them stop.   In time, our Christmas traditions became less violent. They involved sleeping under the Christmas tree, making Norwegian lefsa, and cramming our house with…

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