Christmas Carols for Curmudgeons

I have a confession to make. A deep, dark confession: I don’t like Christmas. I don’t like that it goes on for months, that the normal satisfaction of giving things to the people you love is soured by obligation/time-constraints/commercialism/OHDEARGODTHESTORESARECROWDED. And more than anything else, I hate Christmas music. I hate…

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Recharging

Different people have different ways to recharge. For me, it’s always quiet time, spent alone. Last week, I finally completely Stage Two of our move, which involved getting all of my earthly possessions save a trunk’s worth of clothes and a laptop packed up and loaded onto a truck, and…

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