'Tis the Season
...of waiting. Waiting in lines that stretch longer than usual; waiting in traffic that doesn't seem to budge; waiting for those gifts purchased online to arrive on our doorstep...there's no doubt that the holiday season is full of waiting. You don't have to spend much time in stores or traffic to realize that most people are not good at waiting...or at least that it incites quite a few negative emotions. Now I'm not going to sit here and say I love traffic and crowds, but I can say that the increase in both during the Christmas season has never really bothered me. I distinctly remember the moment when I began seeing holiday traffic as less bothersome and more of a blessing. It was a Sunday morning in December of 2002 and I was sitting in an unbelievably long line of traffic between early morning mass and my shift at the chocolate shop in the local mall where I worked throughout high school. I still remember Britney Spears' attempt at a Christmas song was playin