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...call Lionel, which gives me the names of two catalog companies. Both places are sold out until the new year, although a customer-service manager chirpily tells me that if I'm patient, she will send me a free holiday boxcar with Santa on top to put under the tree. Frantic, I dial hobby shops across the country. Nobody has the train, and some owners share theories why. Although none blame the scarcity on Lionel's recent bankruptcy, two shopkeepers tell me that workers in China, where the sets are made, are getting back at the U.S. for screwing...
...Park, Kans. For the past six years, she and her husband have made a concerted effort to rein in the holiday hoopla. "Rather than focus on the shopping calendar of Christmas, we're focusing on the spiritual aspect," Pursell explains. "We've decided to not even put up a tree until the third week of Advent, and we don't decorate it until the week before Christmas." Other holiday trappings have gone out the window altogether. Several years ago, the couple stopped swathing the house in knickknacks and frills. This year, they're eliminating Christmas lights. Gift purchases have also...
...your own world as well. Some families rein in the gift frenzy and gain treasured time together by chipping in for a family ski trip or beach vacation. According to the Knox study, people reported having happier holidays when they instituted environmentally friendly practices like using a live Christmas tree or eliminating wrapping paper. Bill McKibben, author of Hundred Dollar Holiday: The Case for a More Joyful Christmas, suggests making presents or giving the gift of time, offering to help a sibling with homework or to pay for ballet lessons...
...better than Murphy, under whose tutelage Fitzpatrick, Neil Rose ’02-’03 and others bloomed into bona fide gunslingers, to teach the next generation of Crimson quarterbacks? Neither they nor any of the offense’s returning starters want to look under their tree Christmas morning to find a playbook from anyone other than Murphy...
...this isn’t bad news for everybody. If you were planning on not decorating your Christmas tree, not eating dinner with your family, not getting presents for your friends or not curling up in front of your fireplace with something other than your economics book, you should be golden. Also, if you’re uber-competitive and wanted to know that your very own Harvard boasts the shortest winter break out of all its peer institutions, you’d also be in luck. Yale, as usual, is a close second, but alas, no cigar. Yale...