Getting into the Spirit

I'm not a big Christmas guy. Even now, coming up on my third non-retail Christmas, I find it a bit tough to sink into the season. But I do have a few go-to pieces of the holidays that never fail to make me smile. The first? LEGO. I know, I know, you're looking at me …

Advent

When I was a kid, I usually had the sort of advent calendar that had a wee bit of (not-so-great) chocolate behind little cardboard doors. I'd be over-the-moon to open them up every day and see what it was, and had to balance begin given permission to do so (chocolate is not to be had …