Guest Writer: Some Belated Holiday Observations
This guest post comes from Tom Giles, a former classmate of mine. A Holiday Observation where I buy breakfast at. I am fifty one years old and I work at a convenience store. When someone(invariably) asks me to list what I’m thankful for during the holiday season my first thought is I am thankful that I am afraid of prison life, because if I were not my backyard would be filled with shallow graves containing people who ask questions like that. I used to be thankful for a feast and time with my family, until I figured out that I do not like turkey that much, or my accidents-of-birth siblings at all. Christmas always sucked, too. As a child it never lived up to the expectations, I was a true believer, so good I was led by television Christmas specials to believe that I deserved a veritable cornucopia of gifts. The deluge of toys never materialized. When my own children were very small, there was a short time that they were content with the toy...