Reason for the Season
On a particularly hot and sunny day a few weeks ago, our daughter was curious to know if Christmas was coming "soon." Being in the northern hemisphere, I was rather surprised that she failed to recognize that the season was getting progressively warmer - not cooler. We briefly discussed that first it will get warmer before it gets cooler, although there are parts of the world in which Christmas does, in fact, occur during one of the warmest parts of the year; the northern hem
