HOW TO WARM YOUR COLD, HOLIDAY-HATING HEART

REMEMBER LAST holiday season? You were stuck at home, missing your extended family because we were nearing the worst of the worst wave of the pandemic, with the general public months away from the vaccine. All was not merry and bright. Personally, I knew I was feeling down when even my go-to seasonal viewings—The Muppet Christmas Carol, Christmas Vacation—didn’t make me feel much of anything about my favorite holiday. Last year left me with a sense only Clark Griswold could know: “Holy shit! Where’s the Tylenol?”

I feared that same rut of numbness looming for Christmas