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As I write this year’s holiday season life update, I have not yet read a single Christmas letter from this year.  And I’ve only heard “Christmas Shoes” twice.  This holiday season is getting off to a slow start to say the least.   (Ever notice how we tend to fluctuate between saying ‘Merry Christmas’ and ‘Happy Holidays’ year to year? We’re a very confused couple) It occurs to me that in this season when all of us write these letters, many of us take the time to wax poetic or become sentimentally introspective.  So if you the reader would indulge me for just a few lines: When we take the time to reflect on what we have done over the past 12 months, every year we are more and more amazed and thankful for the things that we’ve been allowed to see, and for the people that have chosen to share their lives with us. We’d like to say a mass thank you to each of you for being a part of our lives in some way.  And to those of you who may hav...

Every good Holiday letter has to have a festive-style, artsy-fartsy pic. This picture is only here cuz it's snowing and cuz Laura said "this better make the Christmas card." Sunset in Key Largo, FL Merry Christmas to all of our cyber-friends, acquaintances and people who found this site by accident!  Once again the calendar has turned, as has the weather (except for our friends in Southern California, who get sun and 72 degrees all year around and are despised for it by the rest of the country) and it’s time for the Castros' self-serving, hey-look-at-us, we-think-alot-more-people-care-about-what-we-did-than-actually-do, end of the year letter. It seemed like last years letter was a bit lengthy, so let’s just try to hit the highlights this year. Heeeeeere we GO! Preparing to enter the shark cage, off the coast of South Africa, near Shark Alley You clicked the links.. and here's your reward! A penguin at Boulders Beach, o...

Graffiti Art. Queens, NY   Well, it’s finally happened. The Castro Christmas letter has finally gone electronic. I know some of you are thinking… It’s about darn time. (Some of you might use a different expletive, and that’s OK .) Others of you might be upset that you had to go online in order to read this stupid letter, but if that’s the case you probably didn’t log on in the first place, so we’re wasting our collective literary breath. Unless you  Castro Theater, San Francisco, CA are the type of person that logged on just so you can complain about logging on, in which case we don’t much care that this put you out. However, there are also the significant percentage of you that may be disappointed to not have a “hard” copy, as they say for more important reasons: After last year’s letter, we heard back from some of you that might be disappointed that you cannot read this letter from the toilet. To which I say, get a laptop or hit the “print” button. Or, hav...