When I read this line in Linda Stowell’s Woodstock column: “With a third of November already gone, Thanksgiving will be upon us very soon!” I thought, that can’t be right! But of course it is—and the holiday season really is right around the corner.
My daughter Annie, who owns a bookstore in Nederland, Colorado, looks forward to the holidays as much as just about anyone I know (unless it’s her sister Cait who was also switched at birth with an elf baby). She already has her shop beautifully decorated with lights, wreaths, garlands, and, of course, a fully decorated Christmas tree. Knowing that I can be a little bit Grinch-like when it comes to early decorating, she had to text me to rub in the fact that, nowadays, the Christmas season seems to start the day after Halloween.
