Growing up, this was the time of year when my brothers and I fought the most. We weren’t fighting over what show were going to watch on television (I grew up in the days of one TV households) and we weren’t fighting over who was going to get the last piece of chocolate cake (my mom always divided it up into four tiny slivers). The reason for our battles: the JCPenney Christmas catalog. That thing was the source of knock-down-drag out fights from October until mid-December. (I grew up on an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean void … Continue reading →