For all who celebrate Christmas, December brings a sleigh load of excitement and anticipation. The little ones count down the days until Santa tumbles down the chimney, while the rest of us look forward to a few days away from work, visits with friends and family, special meals and drinks, and the old familiar songs and carols that gild the season.
Then there’s the other side of the holiday: the rush to decorate our homes and apartments, the travel plans to arrange, the gifts to buy, the greetings to send, the parties to attend, and the bills to pay when the killjoy Grinch of credit card debt knocks at the door of your bank account. On and on they go, those infinitives of duty and desire, that to-do list that can inflict stress and misery on the most stouthearted Yulephile.
