Christmas Christmas is the season I use to clock failure in life. It stops time, as it were, on the year - where you are in it, where you are in your travail... Padgett Powell 11
Christmas I associate the truest spirit of Christmas with certain years when I had to spend it at my parents' house as an adult who had, presumably, escaped. Padgett Powell 7
Christmas At every Christmas, I fail to remember the daughters' shoe sizes, and they are not growing, but grown. After ostensible hard thought about who needs... Padgett Powell 9
