For me, it’s not material things that I find the kind of gifts that
move me. I’m a person who’s been away over holidays like Christmas, so
the best gift that I’ve received is to be home with family and friends.
At home we have a get-together on Christmas Eve. It’s interesting
because a lot of people say, well, it’s Christmas Eve and people are
getting ready for the next day and all that, but we have found that we
get lots of attendees, friends who we may not have seen all year,
family makes an effort to get over and spend a couple hours. So we do
it every year now and it’s part of the holiday tradition.
This article appears in Dec 3-9, 2009.