The concept is bizarre when you stop and think about it. Let’s take a couple of days off of work at one of the busiest times of the year.  We’ll time our school calendars so that the semester break occurs during the holiday. For the month preceding the holiday, houses and storefronts will be decorated with fir trees, snowflakes, wreaths, lights, snowmen, reindeer, and a man in a red suit. We’ll write songs about it...