Bricks and Boxes

Christmas is here at last. Often preparing for Christmas is a list of lonesome chores, even, or especially, if you have a many friends and family with whom to share your love and sentiments. The secret gifts, the time management, and the endless driving around can be a little isolating.

This is a call to bear hug all the shared moments of the holiday season and to think about more collaborative resolutions for the new year.

Hold those embraces a moment longer. Run up your phone bill and make plans to visit your distant relatives. Promise to get involved in charities, sign up for a book club, start a lunch club, and get a workout buddy to lose your extra holiday pounds.

We all wish for good health in the new year and to be together for many holidays to come. I look back at this past year and I am grateful for the community that has been built in Pittsburgh by social media. We are all one big family and we’d do anything for each other.

One family found a trusted nanny for their newborn son from a friendship that developed through Pittsburgh social media relations.

Anyone who is having a bad day for whatever reason can be instantly reassured by at least ten of their Yinzer friends on Twitter.

And I found an awesome dude to hang out with through Pittsburgh social media.

We wish you the happiest of holidays and true friendship, love, health and prosperity in the coming year.