Every year about this time, out of the depths of my unconscious rises, unbidden, a theme for our Christmas Letter, a.k.a. Holiday Greetings.
This year it was being alive — which used to be one of the purposes of sending Christmas cards in the not-so-ancient days before the internet and social media made it easy to tell who of your friends and acquaintances was still alive.
I also talk about other things. Such as the bidet we got for the bathroom I use most frequently. Laurel, my wife, thought it seemed weird to mention something about my bathroom habits in a Christmas letter. It didn’t seem at all weird to me. After all, I wrote a whole blog post about how much I love the bidet.
Anyway, since I ended our letter by saying, “May we all march to the beat of our own drummer in 2026, and every year,” it seemed incongruous for me to take out the mention of the bidet since it is how I now march to the beat of going to the bathroom.
Here’s the 2025 letter, in PDF and JPEG formats.
2025 Christmas Letter PDF
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