It’s December 8th and I haven’t done a single Christmas post this year. In the past, holiday posts have been a staple of my Decembers. I’ve written a bunch of posts about Santa and a bunch of posts about holiday music. I’ve written a fair number of posts about Chanukah. I’ve written about the language…
2021 has been a weird year and, so far, December has been especially weird. People who know me or read this blog regularly know I love the holidays. But, even though it’s December 11th and I’ve been posting every day in December, I’ve barely mentioned Christmas. It’s come up in three posts, but only incidentally….
Many of you know that each year I do a holiday music binge starting the day after Thanksgiving and ending on Christmas day. It’s one of my favorite parts of December. This year, my favorite has been Sacred Steel for the Holidays by The Campbell Brothers. So, I wanted to share it with everyone. The…
There are lots of things I like about Christmas, as anyone who reads these December posts can tell. One thing in particular is the greeting, “Merry Christmas.” It’s the only time that I can think of that we wish other people to be merry and I like merriment. We don’t usually wish people to be…
Every year at Thanksgiving and Christmas, my mom makes an extra pumpkin pie for me to take home. It’s one of my favorite things about the days after the holidays, just knowing that there’s a pie in the fridge. And one of my favorite things about having that pie is I get to eat pie…
Every year, PNC calculates what they call the Christmas Price Index. Basically it is the amount of money it would cost to buy all of the gifts in the song “The Twelve Days of Christmas”. This year, the total is $34,558.65. That’s a 0.6% increase over last year. If find the number interesting in a…
I always wonder why any song about or featuring winter becomes a Christmas song. “Jingle Bells”, “Sleigh Ride” and “Winter Wonderland” have nothing to do with Christmas. We should be just as happy listening to them in February as we are in December. But we’re not, and I think that’s strange. Other holidays don’t co-opt…
Today I’m really at a loss what to write about for my December 2017 daily post. One thing about the holidays is they are more fun when we share things. So, tonight I want to share one of my favorite pieces of holiday music. It’s the album Woody Guthrie’s Happy Joyous Hanukkah* by The Klezmatics….
As a kid, Christmas is the best. You get a week off of school. You get to eat lots of cookies and candy canes. And you get presents. There’s nothing at all to worry about. As a parent, Christmas is still the best, but it’s different. There are worries for the parents. When are we…
