Dear Santa, Don't go!
Christmas time has that magical ring to it, which even the most cynical or practical of us, have to succumb to. Especially with kids around, Christmas has that added zest and fervor. A season of Santa letters and Santa gifts, the spell seems to be cast everywhere. I remember how a few years back, my daughter, just a toddler those days would whisper into my ear, what she would like from Santa that year. We would sit down with colored pencils, paper and assorted stationery and try and get the letter to Santa right. The letter always had to start with a “Hi, how are you?... and what did you do the last one year?” It also included the highlights of what she did the whole of last year (which usually didn’t get past the one week or so…), how good she has been, and how she wanted a doll, just like that one she saw in a shop nearby or a pencil-box like the one her friend had… The innocence of those words, the mischievous note in her tone when she would pester me to...