Dear Mary Joe,

(My esteemed fellow writer, Mary Joe Leverette, complained to me that she received no personalized note accompanying the last issue of Write Between The Eyes. So here it is. For those of you who aren’t Mary Joe, please just cross off the “Mary Joe” in the greeting above and type or neatly print your name and pretend this personalized greeting is to you. Thanks.)

Happy holidays blah blah blah. Hope you and Peter and the kids survive this flagitious season. There. That’s a personal greeting.

Stoically,

P.S. Did I mention that my prolonged stint at DDB Needham has reached a conclusion, at least for the near term. So if you hear of anything, I’m champing at the bit.

 

BONUS HOLIDAY ISSUE!

“Holidays are an expensive trial of strength. The only satisfaction comes from survival.” - Jonathan Miller

“Holidays are often overrated disturbances of routine, costly and uncomfortable, and they usually need another holiday to correct their ravages.” - E.V. Lucas

“The prospect of Christmas appalls me.” - Evelyn Waugh

“I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken, disorderly subject; a wasteful, disastrous subject; a wicked, cadging, lying, filthy, blasphemous and demoralizing subject. Christmas is forced on a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred; and anyone who looked back to it would be turned into a pillar of greasy sausages.” - George Bernard Shaw

“Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed and the rejected.” - Jimmy Cannon.

Something in me resists the calendar expectation of happiness. - J.B. Priestley