Oh I am enjoying this. Being alone Christmas eve. I can do exactly what I please, when I please and how. I don't know why I am so happy when in fact I should be sad being alone on this special evening when so many are making an effort to be happy together with family. I feel strangely at peace and happy. As though going against the flow is giving me pleasure. I think that may be the reason. That I am doing something so few are doing- by being...

Not much. I am very much alone this Christmas. My son didn't come yesterday. Love got in the way. He may come by today- for a short moment- I'm not getting my hopes too high. Well- I'm used to being alone so Christmas days are no different than any other time of year. The past several christmases have been much the same and a bit sad in a way- I see nobody- far removed from the christmases of past where the whole family was gathered- relatives,...