How not to write a tone-deaf holiday letter in 2020

Kendra Stanton Lee
3 min readNov 22, 2020
Photo by Kira auf der Heide on Unsplash

Mentioning your zero-emissions luxury vehicle when friends have zero-admissions to their bank account is probably not the best move.

Each December, I revel in the veritable cornucopia of holiday cards: photos of fat Santa babies and reindeer-cats; impressively embossed envelopes that cost more than my station wagon; letters rife with humblebrag and sins of omission.

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Kendra Stanton Lee

Writer of essays, teacher of high school, mother of two. Subscribe to my monthly love letter: https://www.kendrastantonlee.com/contact