I used to sit on Santa Claus’s knee every year and tell him what I wanted for Christmas, if you consider that shopping. Every year, I asked for a pony.

Johnny Carson once said that the worst gift is a fruitcake. He indicated there was only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people just keep sending it to each other. Truthfully, fruitcakes were ...

This past Saturday was cold and rainy, but I had a few errands to run and got out into the weather mid-morning.

You knew Christmas had begun when the city hauled out dusty boxes of decorations no one had seen since last year that shed tinsel the moment you looked at them.