Sugarplums Dancing— Long Ago and Far Away I wonder how many of you remember that Feeling, that special Magic that fills Childhood [if we’re lucky] Christmas’ with joy and wonder and awe? I still remember it very well. I have carried that Feeling, that Magic, with me for all the decades since my sisters and I were small. That was in the 1960s, a simpler time on the surface perhaps, but also one of strife, of racial and sexual bias, hidden abuses, the everpresent threat of war, and monsters that weren’t always under the bed.