For All Christmases Yet To Come:

"I'd like to teach the world to sing, in perfect harmony!
I'd like to buy the world a Coke, and keep it company!"

I'd really like to buy every starving person in the world a great big Christmas dinner, American style, and give each one of them a little goat like the one in the story, where all you had to do was say, "Little goat, if you are able, please to spread my little table," and a table loaded with good things to eat would appear. Presumably, the goat eats all the leftovers, plus the table and dirty dishes, etc.

Sad note: Bhutto was assassinated in Pakistan today.

Jed and I ate lunch at Chili's today, and then he went back to Atlanta. Wonderful holidays, wonderful birthday. God bless America!