![]() ![]() Some families insist on Christmas Eve, but that's not our way. I come from a tradition of morning openers. In my house, the children, old enough to have wised up to Santa, waited patiently for us to build a fire and make coffee before they retrieved their old sequined red-felt stockings. ![]() A recent poll says 96 percent of Americans observe the holiday in some way or another. For celebrate Christmas is something that almost all of us, apparently, do. May we now declare a truce in the Christmas culture war? All those poor salespeople who struggled to remember whether company policy was to greet shoppers with "Happy Holidays" or "Merry Christmas" are free to relax and settle down around their Christmas tree or holiday tree or whatever other seasonal symbol they prefer and celebrate in their own private way. ![]()
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