Well, Ebisu Atre and the local KFC may have decided that Xmas started at the end of November, but for me it has only just begun. I can smell it in the air, and can sense that festive feeling that combines that sense of a year nearly completed and a time to celebrate life, love and friendship.

The real Santa Claus will be in town soon to visit our party on Saturday, December 23rd. We're all booked up already, so I hope you registered early. Some people have asked me whether our Santa Claus is the real Santa (of course!), others have doubted that Santa really exists... well, to that I can only post a 1897 editorial from the New York Sun. The editorial was written in response to an eight-year old girl named Virginia who wrote in to the newspaper saying:


Dear Editor:
I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus.
Papa says: "If you see it in The Sun, it's so." Please tell me the truth: Is
there a Santa Claus?

Virginia O'Hanlon

See the answer next post...