’Tis the Season(al Affective Disorder)

Why the Holiday Season and Winter is a Time for Me to Cope

There is a sign, on southbound Route 9D in Beacon, that features a Brad Pitt-looking Joseph tending to a post-partum Mary and Baby Jesus that says, “Keep Christ in Christmas.” That sign is perhaps a byproduct of a certain cable news channel’s once white-hot “War on Christmas,” a nonmilitary campaign still fueling the fantasy among its fear-based, geriatric viewers that dark, secular forces aim to degrade Christmas and strip it of its true spirit. Meanwhile this bogus “war” ultimately just moves Buicks and…