// posted December 21, 2009 by Lou Schuler
One of the real joys of the holiday season is reading the annual Christmas letters from family and friends. The best letters manage to be funny, clever, poignant, self-mocking, and most of all brutally honest — quite a trick to pull off with just a few hundred words.
This I freely admit: My friends inspire me to write better Christmas letters. I won’t say I compete with them — if I did, I’d have to push my kids to be more interesting, and there’s no telling what dark alleys that would lead us toward. I just like to think that the people reading my letters get a kick out of them.
Unfortunately, there’s another kind of holiday letter. The worst are the chirpy ones that stop just short of offering the exact amount of the husband’s annual bonus and photocopies of the kids’ perfect SAT scores.
We got one today … well, I can’t go…
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