Miracle and Other Christmas Stories
Introduction
I love Christmas. All of it-decorating the tree and singing in the
choir and baking cookies and wrapping presents. I even like the
parts most people hate-shopping in crowded malls and reading
Christmas newsletters and seeing relatives and standing in baggage
check-in lines at the airport.
Okay, I lied. Nobody likes standing in baggage check-in lines. I
love seeing people get off the plane, though, and holly and candles
and eggnog and carols.
But most of all, I love Christmas stories and movies. Okay, I lied
again. I don't love all Christmas stories and movies. It's a
Wonderful Life, for instance. And Hans Christian Andersen's "The Fir
Tree."
But I love Miracle on 34th Street and Christopher Morley's "The
Christmas Tree That Didn't Get Trimmed" and Christina Rosetti's poem
"Midwinter." My family watches The Sure Thing and A Christmas Story
each year, and we read George V. Higgins's "The Snowsuit of
Christmas Past" out loud every Christmas Eve, and eagerly look for
new classics to add to our traditions.
There aren't a lot. This is because Christm ... read full excerpt from: Miracle and Other Christmas Stories ebook
