Light Bulb Quest
Some of the people delivering your holiday packages are only around for a few weeks – but the work they do, and the lives they lead, stay with me. Every year during the holiday ‘Peak’ season, United Parcel Service employs thousands of temporary workers to help get packages delivered on time. If you live in […]
The National Retail Federation estimates that holiday spending this year will reach a new record of somewhere between $980-989 billion. That’s almost a trillion dollars – in the U.S. alone! (A trillion is a one followed by twelve zeroes.) Meanwhile online shopping, estimated at between $295-298 billion, represents nearly one-third of that total. These figures […]
Happy November! I see the day after Halloween as the first day of the holiday season. Time to start enjoying Christmas music again! Recently I gave five simple reasons why I love being a UPS driver. Since then I’ve thought of a few others, including this one: I make people happy, all day, every day. […]
You might assume from the name of this blog that my favorite part of the holiday season is all the lights. That’s a perfectly reasonable guess, but it happens to be wrong. Instead, my favorite part of the holiday season is the music. Like my affinity for light bulbs, my love of Christmas music drives […]