Happy Anything and Everything!

Be Happy! YOLO!

Merry Christmas! Happy Hanukkah! Have a great whatever-you-celebrate day. Or you can have a great "I don't celebrate anything Day!”

BTW, "Happy Holidays" is really "Happy Holy Days." I’ve always wondered about "Christians" who object to that particular greeting.

Actually, I remember growing up in MA in the NINETEEN 60s— yes, the “Dark Ages” —and learning that either Lutherans or Presbyterians (honestly don’t remember which) said “Happy Holidays’ because December was Advent-and they didn’t say Merry Christmas until— (wait for it…) Christmas Day! But people also didn’t get offended if you gave the “wrong” greeting—they acknowledged the spirit of the wish.

The one thing that was offensive (to my poor grandmother, at least) was sending a Christmas card to someone you knew was Jewish… You sent a note wishing them Happy Hanukkah until it became possible to buy Hanukkah cards. By the way, the JFK White House was the first administration to send Hanukkah cards to Jewish supporters.

Back to the purpose of this brief post—which is to thank all of you for being followers of our decidedly sporatic efforts to write a blog.

We sincerely appreciate your vote of confidence in our musings, and I know that I speak for John when I say that your feedback has helped us as we noodle around trying to pin down our arguments for the book.

We’re making progress—if nothing else, we’ve deep-sixed some theories we’ve had— and have refined others due to your questions/comments. My Christmas gift to John was matching planning books for 2025- we are now at the point where we need to finalize an outline—and start laying out arguments. It’s going to be an exciting journey. John also keeps floating the idea of a podcast—what say you, our loyal readers, to that idea? The idea would be to interview people——but if you’ve got a better idea, speak up!

My New Year’s resolution is to write one post a week and let me caveat that by explaining, that means I might actually get out two a month.

I have been told that I agonize too much over posts and so they are quickly OBE (overtaken by events, for you non-governmental types), and I absolutely agree…..I spend too much time editing and never posting. You’d swear I was afraid that that Philbin professor would grade me! So I’m going to learn this year to let stuff go…..but that means I expect more negative feedback from you readers.

Have at us!

And please enjoy the holidays—wherever, with whomever, and however you celebrate! (or don’t!)

Happy New Year from Paula and John (and the rest of the Suggs’)