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Show The Salt Lake Tribune ENTERTAINMENT Saturday, December25, 1999 ould Christmas Cometo a Halt WomenLoosened a Link in The Chain to Yuletide Tradition? don’t have to drag a tree through BY PATT MORRISON LOS ANGELES TIMES Every December, I pass some mail or another, and I wonder: Whatare ail those women dog inside? Why aren't they outide? Outside the toy stores, the andy stores, outside the depart- fore the baby wakes up and starts to our holiday performance anxiety. test: Wecave in to tradition, to peer pressure, Superstitiously, breaking we fear thatbinds us properly performed, preserves family and memory for another wanted cleaning, gifts awaited wrapping. There was a toddler to bathe and dress. Her husband volunteered to help. He choseto paint ‘the front porch, An East Coastfriend buys her husband’s family’s gifts, wraps year. Butreally, would the family disown you if, for once, you boughtthe cinnamonrolls instead of using your grandmother's recipe? Would it kill anyone if you skipped making tamales from scratch? The revolution came to our house one Christmas, when my mother’s special chocolate cookies, the labor-intensive ones that and sends them, buysgifts for the kids, the kids’ teachers, for the babysitter, for her husband’s sec- retary. She cooks, she cleans, she keeps the holiday accounts. At least we're Jewish, she says, so 1 was openthelatest on Christmas Eve. If it was a sporting-goods store, we mightget skates. 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Wake up untroubled on Dec. 24 BY SAY AMEN! oan on. = Coveringreligionis a religion for Reporters Peggy Fletcher Stack and Bob Mims Every Saturday in The Trib eS stapled it closed and taped a bow by the mall on the way home and Die De NCU P a} mye ene mo) naan ape on tn een een fa = mu‘SMART, FUNNY and me risk the chain coming meeded cooking, guest rooms His gifts depended on what shop spotenesny BE CONES to the lives we havelived. Loosen one link, let one element vanish, apart in our hands — our childhood gone, our memories gone, oe ene family foundation ‘lost beyond recall. Each ritual, Myfather, once he had raised up the Christmastree, didn’t give much thought to holiday chores. C7 waffle iron or a bracelet. He stuck the gift into a brown papersack, woeaer 1S BRILLIANT. ive one golden Womenare co-conspirators in was. ‘A HOLIDAY TREAT FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY. crawlingt Christmas Mas,she tninute, 60 seconds ofpeace, to call her own. “Holidays unfair to women!” dust about every woman I know pulls away the calendar ges of October and November ith mounting dread. The daily pountdown of dwindling shopping s reverberates like a doomsclock. Each shimmering note silverbell tolls another second gone. Tick tick,tick tick. A college friend was hosting ithe family for Christmas. Food We were aghast. But we survived. The next year, bakery cookies tooktheir place. We would always say of those little homemade cookies that it wouldn't be Christmas without them.It still the house. A WestCoastfriend has inherited her family’s Christmas dinher,a sit-down for 16. Afterward, at 2 a.m., she mops thefloors, beis gratet nent stores, the gimcrack and mo stores? 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