by Keith Ahlers | Dec 20, 2024 | Holiday Letters
Holiday Greetings 2024 Let's Discuss Your Case A few years ago, (I won’t say how many), I called my mother to wish her a Happy New Year. She thanked me, and in a sing-song voice that only a mother could use (a voice that makes a middle-aged man feel like a...
by Keith Ahlers | Dec 1, 2023 | Holiday Letters
Holiday Greetings 2021 Let's Discuss Your Case Many years ago, for our wedding anniversary my wife and I bought ourselves a beautiful grandfather clock. The clock store owner told me that it was an exact replica of the grandfather clock in the oval office. It...
by Keith Ahlers | Dec 1, 2023 | Holiday Letters
Holiday Greetings 2023 Let's Discuss Your Case We are a Christmas/Hanukah family. I was raised Catholic, my wife Jewish. We raised our kids in our busy home with both traditions observed. We have quite a few menorahs, a dreidel, and Gelt (chocolate coins wrapped...
by Keith Ahlers | Dec 1, 2022 | Holiday Letters
Holiday Greetings 2022 Let's Discuss Your Case Last night I was sitting in my chair in the living room, looking at the fire I had started in the fireplace, while admiring our beautiful Christmas tree with its colorful bulbs, and an unruly number of ornaments...
by Keith Ahlers | Dec 1, 2020 | Holiday Letters
Holiday Greetings 2020 Let's Discuss Your Case Dear Friends, During WWII, the French, demoralized by the war and their enemies’ occupation of their country, would brush aside their malaise with the expression “C’est la guerre”. Literally, “it’s the war”. It can’t...
by Keith Ahlers | Dec 1, 2019 | Holiday Letters
Holiday Greetings 2019 Let's Discuss Your Case Dear Friends, In the beginning of November, my brother and sisters and, most of all the nephews and nieces flew to Florida to celebrate my mother’s 90th birthday. My parents raised seven children, watched and enjoyed...