Happy Christmas, all. Wrong sentiment for the January issue, you think? Not so. This issue will be with many readers as near to New Year’s Day as the post allows. In other words, you may be reading this right in the middle of the Twelve Days of Christmas.
The Christmas carol of that name, with its fantastically catchy tune and brilliantly memorable (but only in part) words, is about the only reminder in our time that the Christmas season does not stop on New Year’s Day but continues to the Epiphany, the feast of the coming of the Three Wise Men to pay homage to Jesus, on January 6.
