wellness v. cancer
David McCreight
Lands’ End
Lands’ End Lane
Dodgeville, WI 53595
Re: Holiday vs. Christmas
Dear Mr. McCreight:
As a half-Jewish, Buddhist-leaning American who celebrates Christmas, I’m writing to thank you for affirming America’s freedom of religion by not caving to this new evangelical push to Christmasize everything. Their threats of boycotts thinly veil both anti-Semitic and fundamentalist agendas to force their religion down everyone else’s throats. Thank you for intelligently defending your position to maintain “holiday” status. Keep up the good work.
Your Loyal Customer,
Valerie Reiss
This is the letter I just wrote to the CEO of Lands’ End, outraged as I am about all this “Bring Back Christmas” bullshit. It’s infuriating to me that these evangelical nutcases are getting this much uninterrupted airtime. Freakin’ Jew-haters. Arg.
Anyway, it is indeed almost Christmas, and I’m working, working, spiffing up my house and beginning to stress about next month’s battery of tests. Lately every time I get embarrassed and feel a flush of heat I think it’s a fever, and there’s this weird nauseated feeling in my stomach that I worry could be something bad. Once I’m past two years (a year from February), I’ll be psyched and maybe more relaxed. That’s the red-lit danger zone. One year is only nice because it’s halfway to two years. After that, recurrence is much less likely, so the statistics (I know, I am not a number, if anything I’m a letter, maybe M, or Z) say. I’m going up to my mom’s for the Christmas part of the holiday. And meantime, I’m blogging part-time and book-proposing. I had a dream the other night that my mother introduced me as her 40-year-old daughter, and my first thought was holy shit, I’m 40 and I haven’t written a book yet. When I awoke to 32, I felt much better and motivated. So. Onward. xoxo
