Rob Cook has received a Christmas card from his aunt and uncle. It happily arrived over the weekend from his auntie Leslie and uncle Rory (Rory, not Roy). Rob couldn't help but notice a subtle but ...

One of the more delightful holiday jobs I had as a child was opening the Christmas cards. My mom would save the holiday mail, minus the bills and the advertising fliers, for me. I would excitedly o… ...

But a FedExed Christmas card was the only thing that stood between my uncle and a season’s worth of drama, anger and self-satisfied finger-wagging. That was only a harbinger of Christmases future.

I will now undermine my argument with a confession: I still have my niece and nephew’s 2017 and 2018 Christmas card photos on my fridge. These children are the lights of my life.