The annual Christmas letter has been a tradition for how long? The Smithsonian Magazine article in December 2019 says Marie Bussard wrote to her friends on December 25, 1948, beginning the Christmas letter tradition. The article is HERE. There's a Christmas letter archivist to keep track of things.
Most Christmas letters are literal accounts of the family's happenings that year. This is similar to project status reports. I wondered about this. Why write a letter on status when one can do a chart with the numbers along with a few words.
And that's what I found over on Pinterest. In fact, here's the link to 6 free templates from the Spruce to structure your personal life's events professionally.
I consider the 2 words to describe our year to be of great significance in this special year. What are your two words? I liked 'pivot' and 'Existential threat'.
I don't consider the word of the year to be 'pandemic' as did Merriam-Webster. But Oxford Dictionary decided it is 'Doomscrolling'. That seems a representative choice. The OED decided it was 'unprecedented'.
So back to that Christmas letter for 2020. There are lots of Pinterest examples of Family Year in review - for 2020, we recommend you leave out the 'where we travelled' section and the 'big family reunion' description. Add in your 'sour dough bread recipe'.
