Christmas 2023
Dear Family and Friends, This year has run away like an old mare who gets a whiff of the glue factory. Which is what Nancy does when she hears the words “forest” and “lawn” in the…
Holiday Newsletters
Christmas 2022
Dear Family & Friends, (Sung to the tune of Mele Kalikimaka) Meke Klikimaka is the thing to say when you power goes out today. That’s the island greeting that we send to you as a storm…
Christmas 2021
Dear Family & Friends, It’s beginning to look a lot like Crap-mas On the Franklin’s lawn… Yes, it’s that time of year again, when the Franklin’s holiday newsletter dances through your sugarplum…
2020 Christmas
Dear Family and Friends, There’s no place like home for the holidays, right? Well, no place like the Franklin home after these past nine months. It seems to have developed its own miasmic ecosystem. All it…
2019 Christmas
Dear Family & Friends, To quote William Shakespeare’s Henry V: “Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more!” Henry V had an easier time dying from dysentery than the Franklin’s did surviving this year. In…
2018 Christmas
Dear Family & Friends, (Sung to the tune of “Let It Snow”) Oh, the politics are so spiteful And the kids have been so frightful And since this depression won’t slow Drinks will flow! Do some…
2017 Christmas (with a satirical nod to this year’s “Trumpisms”)
Dear Family and Friends, This year has flown by like a covfefe! In fact, the Franklins would like to tell you that it has been a great year, a fantastic year and that they won bigly,…
2016 Christmas
Dear Family & Friends, When Thomas Wolfe wrote “You can’t go home again” he clearly was not referring to the Franklin children. They not only came home again, but brought all manner of alien life forms…
2015 Christmas
Dear Family & Friends, Yes, it’s that time of year when the Franklins drop by your mailbox like Wise Guys with gifts of mold, Franklin-sense and mirth. As this is being sent to press, it is…
2014 Christmas
Dear Family and Friends, Yes, it’s time for another holiday newsletter. A newsletter in which finding new and highly amusing ways of insulting one’s spouse and spawn is always held in high regard. Ever have one…
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