The Holidays

I've been thinking a lot abut the holiday season today. Christmas has always been a time, the only real time, my family spends together. We have never been apart on Christmas until this year. My friends can’t imagine spending 41 holiday seasons together with their entire family—something always seems to come up…but not us. We’re together. Period. End of story. No matter what.

While we’ll all be together in Virginia, this is the first Christmas since Dad passed away last summer. I never really got along with Dad, and he never understood who I am, or what motivates me, but we are all family, and he will be missed this year.