Editor’s note: I am in the process of publishing a book of columns I have written over the years. Here is a variation of one I wrote that was published Dec. 21, 2005. It has been updated.
Have you ever struggled with what gift to buy someone you love for Christmas?
I have on numerous occasions. When my grandfather was alive, that was something I struggled with every year. Pop had every tool you could imagine and then some.
He could only eat so many boxes of candy and cans of nuts. Someone already had bought him a weather radio. And the list of what not to buy goes on.
Put simply, Pop didn’t need anything I could get him, and he was perfectly happy that my family and I traveled from Tennessee to South Carolina each year. Just being there was gift enough for him. [Read more…]