Writing a Christmas letter is a good way to reflect on the events of the past year. But because my main goal is to connect with friends and family I don’t see very often, I include just a few ...

For example, Settie had a manic intensity towards the Christmas letter and getting on the Wall of Fame from the very start, but it can be hard to feel invested in her plight when she’s pushing ...

Finally, writing letters to Santa gets your family into the Christmas spirit. Encourage the children to include drawings for Santa, or put stickers on their letter.

After years of losing her community’s Christmas letter competition, Settie Rose (Angela Kinsey) hires a struggling novelist to depict her dysfunctional family in the best possible light in ...

In “Confessions of a Christmas Letter,” Kinsey plays Settie Rose, an offbeat family matriarch who decides to try her luck in her small town’s annual Christmas letter-writing contest ...

“Here it is Christmas Day,” my future father-in-law wrote his family in Uniontown in the middle of World War II. Corporal Bob Reynolds was stationed “Somewhere in India” with the 25th Field Hospital, ...

In typical Hallmark Christmas movie fashion, Kinsey is already thinking about sequels for "Confessions of a Christmas Letter." "Here's my pitch: In the movie, Juan and Lily (Lillian Doucet-Roche) fall ...

Merry Christmas with love and laughter to you and your family, too, from the Zezimas. Jerry Zezima writes a humor column for Tribune News Service and is the author of seven books.