Looking in the Mirror

While the Grinch isn't my favorite Christmas character, I think some of my family would argue that it is the Christmas character I am most like.

I think the post office ruined the holiday for me. A month-long stream of red and green envelopes, a mail truck overflowing with packages, "Christmas" music playing too loudly on the radio, and sometimes the weather played a part, too. Christmas aside, I still (after 14 years) have post office nightmares.

Holding court at Home Depot was the smiling (?) Grinch,
on a day in December, he'll do in a pinch.