I wish all of you health and happiness on this day, Christmas.
Now, I am going to reveal something that might cause you to wonder whether the title of this blog is "truth in advertising." I neither give nor receive nearly as many holiday gifts as I got or gave in years past. The main reason for that, I think, is that the people closest to me and I have what we need and, for the most part, what we want. And if we don't have something we want, it's easier to simply acquire it (if we can afford it, of course) than to ask or hint for it.
So, I can understand why some of you might think I'm old rather than in "midlife." Still, I assert that as long as I don't know when my life will end, I am in the middle of it.
Anyway, one thing that might qualify me as old is that no one who has ever received a holiday gift from me has ever had to ask this question:
Nor have I. I don't feel I've missed anything.
