Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered.
I'm Jewish, so I don't really do Christmas gifts, and Hanukkah is not as big a deal as gifts are concerned, so I never actually give gifts.
We celebrate the birth of one who told us to give everything to the poor by giving each other motorized tie racks.
I grew up asking for everything under the sun for Christmas, but I knew I wasn't going to get it all.
For many families, gift-giving is a major source of stress - the relentless commercialism, the whining demands, the financial pressure.
A little given seasonably excuses a great gift.
I actually hate when people open my gifts, and I hate opening gifts in front of people.
Well, because I have twin seven-year-old boys, I enjoy the gift giving stuff a great deal. We do both Hanukkah and Christmas, so it is a costly, though extremely pleasing proposition.
The making presents to a lady one addresses is like throwing armor into an enemy's camp, with a resolution to recover it.
