JENNIFER FLANDERS, Family Matters One of my favorite parts of the holiday season is getting a bundle of Christmas cards delivered daily to my mailbox. I love the festive stamps, the bright red and ...

Every year at about this time, I settle down to the arduous task of writing Christmas cards by hand. This is made even more difficult by the fact that my husband expects me to write an individual ...

There's a good reason this invitation always is tucked away in the last paragraph. Studies have shown that 80 percent of Christmas letter readers never make it past the second paragraph.