It's Christmas Author:Kathryn Tucker Windham "My mother's gift of beauty to the family, year after year, was a bowl of paper-white narcissi that she magically coaxed into full bloom every Christmas day." And thereby hangs a tale of Christmas long ago, when the simple gifts were the best gifts, and of Christmas today, when all an eighty-year-old woman wants is a small treasure her moth... more »er used to give away free.« less