Like many children, my favorite holiday was Christmas. It had little to do with religious significance. Rather, it was the jolly North Polian named Santa. Santa no-middle-name Clause. Who both awed and baffled me. While I hadn’t yet honed any deductive reasoning prowess, the implausibility of delivering so many gifts in one night perplexed my young mind. But oh how I treasured his annual visits! Sometimes he’d bring my favorite candy (Snickers) or a few jigsaw puzzles and often a batch of books. How did this astonishing world traveler know exactly what