Big ask

The two green envelopes, addressed to Santa Claus, had been tucked under a stack of files for 12 years, but the notes inside each of them confirmed that my unique, kind, polite children are still all those things, with just enough unapologetic confidence to keep it real.聽

Lights

I think I get it now, the whole rush to decorate for Christmas weeks before it happens. Not October. I don鈥檛 get that. But November decor, well, I鈥檝e accepted that.聽

Paramount

You should have seen my face when I found out that I could not watch the new season of Yellowstone, a highly charged fictional television series that was last winter鈥檚 binge-watching addiction in my house.聽