Our world and its photos

"Doesn't it seem like people are sending their Christmas cards late this year?" my friend asked as we made dinner for our families late in December. It did. And there were fewer of them, too. We string our cards up on a line across our kitchen as a kind of garland, and this year for the first time, the cards didn't make it all the way across. If I use our garland as a measuring stick (comes in handy that way), there were probably

"Doesn't it seem like people are sending their Christmas cards late this year?" my friend asked as we made dinner for our families late in December. It did. And there were fewer of them, too. We string our cards up on a line across our kitchen as a kind of garland, and this year for the first time, the cards didn't make it all the way across. If I use our garland as a measuring stick (comes in handy that way), there were probably 25 percent fewer this year. Christmas card-sending has been on th…