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Mary Schmich: Never baked holiday cookies. Never been caroling. Why you shouldn't feel guilty for skipping holiday traditions.

I have never baked holiday cookies.

There. I've said it. Never, not once, as best I can recall, have I participated in one of the greatest of our nation's traditions, a dereliction of tradition that feels as un-American as Vladimir Putin.

It's my holiday shame.

What's yours? The thing you think you should do to show that you're in happy sync with the season? The thing other people would be astonished to

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