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Each year the American Family Association (AFA) publishes a “naughty or nice” list. Companies who use Merry Christmas in their advertisements and holiday displays are on the nice list.

I used to have a hard time letting people do anything for me. I’d work on my own house, repair my own car—I will admit, in years gone by that was largely because I couldn’t afford to pay anyone.

When I was three or four, my older brother Kevin was in kindergarten. He got to do so many interesting things, while I stayed home.

Maybe I don’t get out much. But I have always heard the word gratuitous associated with “gratuitous sex and violence” in movies I don’t want to see.

I stopped at the Holocaust Memorial, something I had previously walked quickly past. Names of hundreds of thousands of survivors towered over me, neatly written on giant plexiglass monuments.

I still remember the Christmas I was in the 8th grade. There was a box under the tree, a large box, the kind that clothing came in.

A candle is a careless thing, God wot. See how it is alwaysstretching up and reaching out.