Catherine Durkin Robinson is a handful creating quite a scene over at Out in Left Field.
There are many family traditions the weekend after Thanksgiving. Some clans shop, others watch football, while a few travel back home vowing never to go near certain relatives again.
I'm no different. In addition to eating leftovers, feeling fat, drinking enough cocktails to kill a Kennedy, and then self-loathing until I'm damn-near suicidal, it's also become a tradition to go shopping for a Christmas tree.
We do not do this for ourselves. Not really.
This article appears in Dec 2-8, 2009.
