Home for the Holidays

All I really want for Christmas is a ten-game win streak for both men and women’s basketball, a season sweep of the Blue Devils, and for the team in Raleigh to lose every game by thirty points. That doesn’t seem like too much to ask, but then again every picture I see of St. Nick shows him wearing red and white, so maybe it’s back to the drawing board for me and my Carolina blue Christmas.

Failing that, then, maybe just a few days of calm. The end of 2024 seemed to accelerate, like circling the outer edge of a whirlpool, and it seems like only today have I been able to poke my head back above the surface and take a breath. I’m very lucky to be spending this holiday season surrounded by…