Christmas decorations are going up all over the neighborhood. There’s a house with a boat in the front yard, and they’ve put lights all over it and Santa Claus inside the boat.
What’s the most memorable Christmas decoration you’ve run into?
A couple years ago, I wrote an article for the Washington Post’s Page 3 section on my Christmas during the first Persian Gulf War. Check it out here. There’s even a picture of me from Basic Training.
Different places make for different traditions.
I grew up in Southern California. Palm trees, desert, hot. Sometimes for Thanksgiving, we’d go to our neighbor’s house, and he’d have a potluck dinner outside. Yes, outside. We’d eat in the driveway in front of the carport under nice sunny skies.
It’s 56 degrees in Southern California right now and 31 degrees in Washington, DC.
