I heard the door of my shop open. For a moment I tried to remember what I was doing there anyway. A guy walked in wearing blue jeans and a cool flannel shirt. “Hi, you’ve probably been expecting me. I ...

This time of year, Hollywood portrayals of Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol” are nearly mandatory viewing. Instead of visiting Ebenezer Scrooge, suppose the ghosts of Christmases past, present and ...