Sweet Baby Jesus, let’s take a break!

The blog is going quiet through Christmas, not because we’re gliding down the glitter pole or anything, but because were at DJ Central believe in taking breaks for the thinnest of reasons. And even though we’re not the most dedicated of Christmas-celebrators, this seems like a good excuse to step back and take stock — …

Before we were fundamentalists

For a few years, before my mother divorced my father and married her second husband, we were garden-variety Christians who celebrated the birth of Jesus on Dec. 25, along with the rest of Christendom. I was too young to understand the particulars of our theology, but it seemed pleasant. Sunday school was awesome. We made church …

What the kids really want for Christmas

And of course, it’s a commercial.

All back, all better, thanks for waiting.

So, since last we corresponded in any meaningful way, I: * Went to New Hampshire to camp with two of my absolute favorite people * Moved (not my favorite thing to do, but I seem to do it a lot) * Went back to New Hampshire to micro-camp (one night) mostly so I could hang …

Reality bites

Or, as Mike the Heathen, who sent this, says: “Ho-ho-hold on a second:” At the Charles W. Howard Santa Claus School in Midland, Michigan, would-be Jolly Old St. Nicks are being trained to help children downgrade their Christmas expectations. According to the New York Times story, the recession has resulted in: …a Christmas season in …

Melting the boundaries

I just came back from the post office, where I stood in line to send my far-flug family their Christmas gifts. Five people stood in front of me, so to kill time, I started talking to the guy behind me. Snow turns the most hardened New Englander into a chatty Southerner. At least, that’s been …