When I was young I lived in a family where, at Christmas, the children each received a few somethings, and each adult received something nice and thoughtful.

I’m hoping the Nation can help me with a jewelry search.

I am wondering if the Nation could help me out. My father loves a traditional fruitcake and I want to make one for him this holiday season.

Help! I’ve been searching desperately for a few years to find an old diffuser fragrance that was sold at Pier 1 Imports.

Welcome back to the Happy Hellidays iteration of The Vine — it’s all Ask The Readers and holiday etiquette from now ’til New Year’s.

My older brother is an alcoholic. He’s following in a long family tradition (my dad, both paternal grandparents, a couple of cousins, etc.).

Here’s two for the readers. The first was a book on tape that I listened to but never finished, probably sometime around 1998, although the book itself definitely predated that — I want to say it …

My family always had advent calendars growing up, and I am looking for suggestions for good advent calendars to purchase now. I am open to reusable or non-reusable ones.
There is also one particular advent calendar …

I’m looking for book suggestions for my just-turned-thirteen niece. It’s a very in-betweeny age, where her Christmas list is mostly clothes, but she still doesn’t want me to cancel her American Girl magazine subscription. Though …

A Vine question from my brother…who is single. And lives in Seattle. And needs a girlfriend. But anyway, he had a movie question, and as my normally encyclopediac movie brain has failed me, I’d like …