What I Learned from Skipping Christmas
8 min readDec 30, 2020
At some point in the stillness of post-Thanksgiving, I realized that for the first time in my life, my December calendar was blank. There was not a single holiday obligation. In recent years, I’ve not traveled much during this season, but in 2020 this also meant no office party; no festive convening of this and then that friend group; no don’t-miss fete of every organization I know or care about or need to be seen knowing…
