Merry Christmas!

To all of our readers, celebrating today or not, we wish you all the best of what this season means to you and your family.

I particularly like the sentiments shared by my colleague, PalMD, on what Jews and Muslims are doing today in Detroit, Michigan.

I also like the sentiments so nicely expressed by Greta Christina at Alternet.org on 7 Reasons for Atheists to Celebrate the Holidays.

We also send out a big congratulations to original ScienceBlogs editor and science journalist, Christopher Mims, and his family on the birth of their beautiful son, Ike.

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Gifts come in all forms. Enjoy all you have been fortunate to receive!

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Merry Christmas (barely, one more hour of it here on the East Coast) to the PharmFamily!

k8, you inspire me with your joy and optimism. We had a very soggy and lukewarm Christmas that I would have gladly traded for some proper snow.

Merry Christmas to you, too, isles. Thank you for all of your support over the year. Hoping you had a lovely holiday as well!

Yay! Thanks for the holiday wishes. Ike is doing great. I particularly enjoyed your followup post on epidurals, because at 9 lbs 8 oz., we certainly got to find out what those are all about.