This year I’m thinking outside the Dickens and Burns holiday box and going with a more decadent French Bohemian attitude for my holiday entertaining.
Christmas
Longfellow and Peace on Earth
Longfellow: His poetry was sensitive without being sappy. He was able to capture the warmth and depth of the human experience in tender times and in painful ones.
A Jack London Christmas Special
Between Jack London and Alaska, what I have learned is that arctic dogs have a mind, a wisdom, and an agenda all their own. They are neither the subservient dog-at-you-feet nor the wild-wolf-in-you-midst. Like Buck, they will bond deeply with you but like White Fang, they will do it as a partner with a choice, not a slave without one. Like Batard, they take in the world on their own terms and learn their own lessons from it.