Not Home For The Holidays

Not Home for the HolidaysThe holidays—roughly that period between Thanksgiving and New Year's—have traditionally been a time of spiky emotional behavior, high cash outlays and siege-mentality gift-giving and partygoing. Instead of summoning our charity and doling it out in an orderly fashion throughout the year, we are asked to give, receive, power-eat, power-drink and—as if that weren't enough—send a gazillion Christmas cards and thank-you notes. Which does not mean, of course, that the season—...