Question of the Season

Each year I think answering the "question" is going to get easier. But it never does.

I am asked many times : "Are you going home for Christmas?" To which I always answer "No." But what I'm really saying is: "I have no home to go to."

I used to tell the truth, but long ago grew tired of the look in people's eyes when the words -- even said with as much humor as I could muster -- were said.

So my gift is the word "No". My favorite holiday gift to myself are rented movies and a remote control.

I am an orphan on God's highway
But I'll share my troubles if you go my way
I have no mother no father
No sister no brother
I am an orphan girl
-------Gillian Welch

Peace,
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