Dec. 9th, 2022

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This week, as I have done every year since 1986, I started preparing my annual holiday letter, which I send out with a photo card of my family. The girls still put up with this, although assembling us all for a photo is getting more and more difficult. This year, our respective sweeties (Eric, Alona, and Chris) were included in the photo, too, thanks to my brother-in-law good-naturedly snapping a few pics at our Thanksgiving gathering.

Updating the addresses on my list and getting the cards assembled and sent can be a little bit of a pain, but sending the letters and photos out is important to me. I am in touch with some people only this one time a year. I thought a lot about this when Rob passed away, and I continued to send the cards out to my husband's friends, too: his law school buddies, his college buddies, guys on the bowling team he was on years ago, his cousins, aunts, and uncles. Even the people I've never met. I enjoyed getting family news every year because I liked seeing pictures from those trips to Paris, and I wondered who beat that cancer, and where the kids ended up.

This year, I decided to use a format for the letter I've sometimes used before: It's a sort of impressionistic thing, just short words and phrases, snippets of things my girls and I have sent to each other in Snapchats, etc. Small sample:

• best hoodie ever • puzzle rings • getting rid of books • new kitchen floor • repainting • visiting Mom each weekend • Aldi’s • the kindness of friends • Zoom writing sessions • mentoring •

I closed the holiday letter the same way I always do when I use this format (see below):

Frame: a holiday letter border with gold/brass foil Christmas trees. Within that border: top: french horns tied with Christmas greens. Lower left: corner holly greens Lower right: a smiling snowman gestures toward the center of the card. Center reads "this is our life / this is what we say / this is what we do / this is how we love."

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