A guide to making Christmas much easier.

The secret is at the gas station.

Covid Christmas. Family packed into a rented house in the Black Hills. Turns out, dad had the ‘rona. I ate his cookies since he couldn’t taste them.

My friend and I got to talking about Christmas, and gift giving.

Farming in the 1980s wasn’t super lucrative, so while we got gifts at Christmas as kids, it wasn’t pile upon pile. Mom was adamant that Christm…