Holiday photo cards: Tradition or dysfunction?
Traditional holiday cards have largely given way to photo cards, which are often impersonal. (iStock)
Many of us might remember our mothers driving to stationery stores to peruse boxes of holiday cards, back before the tech revolution brought us digital cameras and printed photo cards. My Mom would select heavy stock Christmas cards printed with Currier and Ives snowy scenes, or cheery plaid bows tied on embossed gold french horns, or leaping white reindeer silhouettes, or sprigs of pine adhered with iridescent glitter mimicking snow.
She bought a dozen or two Christmas cards to give out to her family and