What Everyone Gets Wrong When it Comes to Writing a Family Holiday Letter
The actual letter I sent out for Christmas this year.December 2025This is the time of year when we’re supposed to send out little notes to let everyone know how our family is doing. We wish for peace on Earth and celebrate a feeling of goodwill.But this year, I find I can’t engage in such superficial platitudes without sounding like an enormous hypocrite. I know that we’re not supposed to actually tell the truth about what we think in holiday letters. Instead, we’re pressured to maintain the illusion that everything is okay, and in so doing we enable the systems of oppression that are…
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