Opinion

Dear, Santa

This will be my son's second Christmas.Being a February baby, he was 10 months old by the time his first one came around. It was a fun age.

While I am quite fond of the Vince Guaraldi, the solo artist and his Trio, there are limits to my affection. I happen to dislike Christmas songs.

There are various reasons why everything has changed at such a rapid pace. COVID, the hyper pace of technology has forever changed the way we communicate and shop, and the wild pursuit of corporate America to squeeze every dollar out of us average Joe citizenry at the earliest opportunity to name a few.

Snow. How I love it.

December. It seems everything we do in life is in preparation for this one month.

I’m confused. I thought a Christmas tree already had a theme.

Rob Perez Every year, a few days before Thanksgiving, the President of the United States of America pardons two turkeys. Most turkeys are denied clemency… Login to continue reading Login…

My first trip to Savannah was last week. My wife and son came with me.It read as a four drive to and from.

Are you feeling weary, bilious, scratchy, liverish, woebegone, twitchy, grumpy and sneezy? Are your kidneys spasming? Niggly chest twinges, vertigo, lumbago… possible malaria symptoms?Before you panic and head for the nearest ER, pause for a second and think of what we have all just experience.Last weekend we had to put our clocks back one entire hour because of the inexplicably mandated “day light savings time (DST).” These are all symptoms of PTDSTSD.The exaggerated benefit of this has always been “ohhh, woo hoo, a whole extra hours’ sleep, oh happy day!”Commence a joyous gallop around the living room.For me that is a firm no, nope, non, and nada allied with an eye roll and a mumbled, “are you kidding me?”There may be some folks out there that do get a benefit. Perhaps some night owl gamer glued to a retina burning screen who habitually crawls to bed at 3 a.m.