Um, about that Christmas card…
Merry Christmas! For the first year in my memory Sue and I didn’t send out Christmas cards this year — by choice. The reasons are many and varied, ranging from…
Retro-Review: A Christmas Carol (1999) starring Patrick Stewart
By Robert Gillis There have been countless adaptations of Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol” over the last century. One of my favorite Christmas traditions is to watch several of them.…
History of Christmas Traditions
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter 12/1997, revised 12/2007 and also the Boston City Paper, 12/2006 “Here we come a’ wassailing,” the Christmas song goes. The word “Wassail”…