Holidays..................................................

I am sure that when I was a kid I loved the holidays. I think that it was because I didn't know any better or maybe I just loved the idea of a big fat jolly man in a red suit with a white beard and mustache. One year I even carried my illusion so far as to think that I heard something on the roof about 1:00 in the morning. I even went in to wake my parents to tell them that "Santa Claus is here, I heard the reindeer on the roof!" Now that I am older I do believe that there is a Spirit of Santa Claus that is the Spirit of giving. But shouldn't that Spirit live year round and not just in December?

Charities want us to give to help people in other countries who are starving. Sorry, but I do not give to those charities. Yes, I am terrible! Actually my reason for this is that we have people who are homeless and starving right here in our own country that I feel we should take care of them first. Maybe the "National Debt" wouldn't be so large if we didn't send our money to other countries and invested in our own country for once. Maybe we should bring our soldiers home and get our oil from Alaska in an environmentally safe way and let them deal with their own problems. You know the whole, "Keep your nose to yourself thing"? I always thought that charity started at home.

Okay, so I'll get off my soap box for now and do the right thing for this time of year and say:

HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO YOU AND YOUR KIN AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR !