holiday mayhem

I am a huge fan of Carolyn Hax, the advice columnist. I've read every single chat and regular column since she started, 11 years ago. (I say every regular column because I don't try to keep up with the edited chat excerpts they run four days a week.) Today's chat is a particular masterpiece - about halfway through she switches over to the annual holiday horror stories extravaganza, and, wow, people have some crazy families. Transcript here. I laughed til I cried.