2022 Christmas Letter

       Season's Greetings                          Christmas 2022           Until 2022, it was commonly seen that with the end of the Cold War in late 1991, gone were the days when a major nation invaded and took over a smaller nation. But February, 2022 witnessed the "special military operation" by Russia's military invasion into Ukraine, including unthinkable nuclear saber rattling by Russian President Putin. In April, I became Facebook friends with a Ukrainian woman, Larissa, who fled to Vienna, Austria with her son and she keeps me abreast of the depressing challenges that she and her son are experiencing. It is unknown how this tragic war will turn out.           My son, Johnathan, Carissa, Hunter, 11, and Kennedy's, 8, year started off with a house fire in their laundry room. Johnathan managed to p...