The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

Christmas decorations appear in stores in September. Holiday tunes creep into TV and radio broadcasts soon after. December editions of magazines arrive in the mail in early October, laden with red and green Christmas décor. Ugh!

I’m one of those people who is tired of Christmas by the time Halloween rolls around. (And don’t get me started on Halloween, either.) You can call me “Scrooge” or “The Grinch.” I’ll take it as a compliment. But I think holidays should be celebrated when they arrive, not a quarter of a year before. After all, we don’t celebrate the Fourth of July i...