Not Ready for Prime-Time Party

A few weeks ago, we had a Christmas party. We started this tradition about a decade or so when we both left the full-time newspaper business.

We look forward to the event every year and never have a bad time. Even with the bad weather – it rained all day this year – the 2009 edition turned out as wonderful as ever. Except for one thing.

At no point in the party did we all sit around in a circle and break into an impromptu sing-along of holiday songs.

An Elementary Success

When we go to the movies, I prefer to laugh. I will sneak a chick flick in on occasion and maybe an action movie here and there, but I need…