NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Stephen P. Banks, professor of communications at University of Idaho, about holiday letters. Banks coauthored the article "Constructing Personal Identities in Holiday ...
We started the Norlander holiday letter back in 1995 as a whimsical chronicle of our ordinary lives. It generally opened with, “Greetings. The plastic tree is out of its plastic bag and lit once again ...
Most people read Christmas letters to find out who got married or who went on a cruise that year. But Ann Burnett, a communication professor at North Dakota State University, looks for deeper meaning.