Family Holiday Newsletter, Unfiltered

Real Talk About the Sparks Family in 2021

The author’s four children watching fireworks in the street on New Year’s Eve 2021.

Christmas cards — I love receiving them. All the rest of the year long, my mailbox holds ads, bills, coupons for highly processed pantry items and the occasional birthday invitation for my kids. It almost never gives me real mail — not letters or postcards from family and friends, not a handwritten anything. Then, Thanksgiving…