The Big Sandy Mountaineer -

There are many great Christmas stories. Some contain sadness, others emote just the sure joy of the season.

The best of all Christmas stories has a wonderful ending but contains some paths in getting to that wonderful resolution at the end.

I call this one “A sad boy’s reward”.

It is no secret in my family that my father drank way too much. Around Christmas he was prone to go on a toot most anytime. What made that especially bad was that his drinking disposition was horrible, filled with bad things happening to his family. Hollering, swearing, stumbling and falling into the Chri...