Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Morrow Family Christmas Letter #8: Christmas 2009

Over the past few years, the Morrow Family Christmas Letter (MFCL) has endured its share of ups and downs. A writer’s strike and housing market crash threatened to shelve of our annual ‘envelope of happy.’ Last year the MFCL was deemed “too big to fail,” and a last minute bailout with a bridge loan to nowhere and a Christmas Eve agreement with our union (UMFCLW) allowed us to deliver the 2008 MFCL. The eleventh-hour bailout was crafted to give you just enough MFCL to stimulate your own Christmas cheer. You - incapable of providing for your own cheer - urgently needed this bailout or your entire holiday would implode.

The stimulus was an overwhelming success. We have concluded, based on nary a single shred of evidence, that our efforts have