Spending Christmas by yourself can be a very lonely, sad time, or it can be an adventure. I should know because I spent many Christmas holidays alone after my divorce many years ago. The first Christmas was spent crying a lot while I opened presents from my grown-up kids, who had gone to another state with their dad to work.

Mistletoe = kissing. That's how I associate the parasitic plant that is oftentimes hung above a doorway during the holidays. But what is the true history of it? Research told me that there were several theories about how mistletoe became associated with kissing.