Each Christmas, we gather together in great joy and festivity to have our Christmas dinner, our Christmas lunch, to open ...

Gratitude has been a bit of a catch cry in the 2020s. A new age-y mindful-y, mindless, awareness, talking point.

Probably due to bad karma I spent my younger years among counter-culture types: dopers, surfers, hippies, LSD-mystics, public servants, artists, poets and assorted bohemians. Sixty years later, it’s ...