For years and years, Elf Ed Zachary has been a Santa defender.

Whenever someone has spoken up to say that Santa was not real or questioned the effort of Operation Merry Christmas Elf Ed has been there to set the record straight. He is an expert an answering the tough questions about Santa and the North Pole.

In fact, you can read many of his posted articles over at his page at MyMerryChristmas.com.

Now Santa has given him an additional assignment: answering your questions about elf life.

All year long and sometimes coming in at a rate of thousands per day children everywhere write in with questions about becoming an elf, being an elf and what working at the North Pole is like. Elf Ed will — in his usual candid way — give it to you straight. Expect a column from him regularly: