Merry Christmas!

@ Jack Berry

I hope you all enjoy our Winder Break as much as I will--I get the best of both worlds. I'll spend a Mid-West Christmas Eve with family in town and then fly out on Christmas Day to visit my son in San Fransisco where I'll take in the sights and sounds of a big city Christmas.

Nothing would be more appropriate from a lover of literature than a poem. So here's the first stanza of Longfellow's "Christmas Bells". It's my Christmas wish for all:

I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old, familiar carols play, 
    And wild and sweet 
    The words repeat 
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!