Making and Breaking Traditions

Joyful times, necessary evils, or just habits?

’Tis the season for holiday traditions.

We’re expected to host family gatherings.  We’re expected to give gifts.  We’re expected to attend various festive events.  We’re expected to share the joy of the season to friends and strangers alike.

That’s an awful lot of expectations.  And for some, I do mean awful.

Certainly there is joy in giving, and there’s j…