Merry Christmas!

Just a few short hours until the sound of tiny hooves will be heard up on the roof, and a fat dude in a red suit (not me) will slide down the chimney or vent pipe as the case may be and leave toys under the tree from his big bag of dreams. One of my favorite things (certainly not snow on eyelashes) is "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens.

Though an old story, the values put forward hold as true today as they did the day Dickens penned the original story. Of all the lines in the story, Jacob Marley comes out with the best - "mankind should have been our business." No truer words have ever been spoken. Merry Christmas!