I have been hearing some people talk this week about Christmas nostalgia – this feeling that Christmas is never as good as when you were a kid. I can see their point, but for me, Christmas was never really an issue. I think I have just as fun Christmases now as an adult as I did when I was a kid. No, my problem is New Year’s. As an adult, I never know what to do for New Year’s Eve to make it special. When I was a kid, New Year’s was always fun. When I was a kid, my brother, u

Last year, Behr asked me the question I had been dreading. I had picked him up early for an orthodontist appointment and he was telling me about his day. He told me that some of his friends were talking crazy about how Santa was not real. I asked, “What did you think about that?” “I told them they were crazy.” He also rationalized that maybe their parents are buying gifts from their kids’ lists, but Santa was in charge of the surprises. I told him that sounded perfectly logic

Current mode: Grading It's the end of the semester which means I must buckle down and finish grading all my students' final papers. This task is difficult because all I can think about how it that it’s almost baking day. Baking day is one of the holidays we celebrate at my house. It's always the Sunday after I upload end-of-semester grades. This year, Behr expressed his frustration with Baking Day explaining that “There’s never anything for us!” I guess he’s still learning th