The dennisp.com Christmas Letter Archive
Since the 1980's I've been amusing, confusing, and probably annoying friends and relatives with my annual Christmas letters, an exercise in the closest thing to creative writing I can muster. After a few years, I was tempted to quit, but heard that my paternal grandmother enjoyed the nonsense, so I kept it up until she died. I then took a couple years off, until aunt Jodie confronted me at my dad's funeral (see the 1996 entry) and implored me to continue. Never one to deny a small kindness to a relative (when I can't avoid it), and interested in showing off some more, I started up again. Now I gotta wait for Jodie to die. I challenge you to enjoy them; it may be harder than you think.
2007 The Whole Tour HTML MS Word (158K)  PDF (148K) 2006 Trooth HTML MS Word (48K) 2005 90 minutes into the Tour HTML MS Word (58K) 2004 I Don't Have Cancer HTML MS Word (45K) 2003 Lump, and extras HTML Scooby Buntport MS Word (230K) 2002 Nostalgia Summer HTML MS Word (600K) 2001 Jingo All The Way HTML MS Word (46K) 2000 Porno or Baseball. Take your pick. HTML Really Dirty.doc (34K) Merely Insulting.doc (300K) 1999 A commencement address HTML MS Word (43K) 1998 Greetings from the Furnass Family   MS Word (450K) 1997 Our new house; the decline of Informix Software Inc.   MS Word (1.7M) 1996 The year my father died. He's still dead.   MS Word (170K)   Archive - scans of hard copies 1982-1990.   HTML
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