The Santa Claus we “know” has been tamed down from the earlier versions. Our Santa is not associated with anything unpleasant. Not true of the earlier version of Santa, St. Nicholas Consider this medieval story about St. Nicholas from a play by Henri Gheon called “The Sausage Maker’s Interlude.” A butcher makes a sausage-making-machine, but [...]
You’d never know that there was an energy crisis in South St. Louis, based on the extravagant use of Christmas lighting. My family and I walked through one neighborhood that pushed the envelope even further than the usual level of extravagance, drawing dozens of cars. The tradition is apparently to cruise through–almost no one got [...]
Nor should there be such a word. For adults, at least, it’s normal to not believe in the existence of Santa Claus. Nor do we have labels to describe people who don’t believe in
Elves
Levitation
Squared-circles
Talking apple trees, or
The claim that Elvis is still alive.
What if those who were not convinced that Santa exists (because there’s no evidence that [...]
