In case you didn’t know. So, as we get underway with our annual neuroticism (about who can say what to whom about this certain time of year), “Merry Christmas.” And “Happy Holidays.” And “Happy Hanukkah.” (For those of you Christians who think that’s a silly holiday, please note that Jesus went to Jerusalem for the “festival of lights” -which was Hanukkah.

“Oh come let us adore Him.”

Euphoric Reality has Larry the Cable guy reading, “Twas the night before a non-denominational winter holiday…”

Even though the tradition I grew up in did not celebrate Dec. 25 as anything other than a secular holiday, it is as a Christian holiday that my boys have always celebrated the day.

And, as mentioned to me by The Anchoress, we are now in the season of Lent. Sunday was the first day of Lent and I missed it.