Steve Mathonnet-VanderWell

I didn’t believe in Santa Claus as a child, and I raised my own children without any focus or emphasis upon Santa either.  We weren’t virulently anti-Santa.  It was more that he simply didn’t come up.  We didn’t tell Santa…

When he is tried, let him be found guilty…May his days be few; may another seize his position.May his children be orphans and his wife a widow.  May his children wander about and beg; may they be driven out of…

I was staying in a hotel on one of those ubiquitous suburban strips—big box stores, gas stations, car lots, the usual suspects of restaurants.   Figuring it would be circuitous and challenging to drive the quarter mile to the restaurant on…