Memories Are Made of This by Beth Carpenter

Merry Christmas, and thanks to Liz for inviting me to be a guest today. I’m Beth Carpenter, sending you greetings from Alaska. After my husband retired, we began spending some of the year in Arizona, but we always go home to Anchorage for a white Christmas, where I set up the tree (we finally caved and bought an artificial one) and get out all my favorite Christmas things.

I’m a great admirer of people who can pull off “theme” decorating—the candy land extravaganzas, the nostalgic woodland cottag...