I bought a pee wee Charlie Brown holiday tree last year. It has a single, red ornament. A few lonely branches. I like that little tree. Always a sucker for nostalgia. And the underdog. It was a fit ...

“Inventing the Christmas Tree” by Bernd Brunner, translated by Benjamin A. Smith, $18. If you’ve just returned from a tree lot and plan to pull out boxes of decorations this afternoon, you may find it ...

Memories of Christmas trees parade through my mind during Advent. I grew up in Miami, where the yearly hunt for a perfect tree had the whole family attired in Bermuda shorts and flip-flops. We climbed ...

My son arrived for the holidays to find no Christmas tree at my new place. I’m sure it did not faze him. I put up two wreaths, decorated windows with gel clings, found a place to dangle the mistletoe, ...