Our 21st Annual Operation Christmas Cheer campaign is underway and we can use your help. What is Operation Christmas Cheer? It is a simple community effort to send Christmas cards to those shut-in, ill, maybe a little sad or just having a hard time this Christmas. It never fails to cheer weary hearts and for […]
In our recent exploration of Thanksgiving and Christmas on The Christmas Show of My Merry Christmas we attempted to answer the question: Is Thanksgiving a part of Christmas or is Christmas a part of Thanksgiving? It may seem an odd question. But the truth is that we can’t seem to separate the two. In our […]
Is Thanksgiving a part of Christmas or is Christmas a part of Thanksgiving? It is not so strange of a question. Many of us seem to celebrate both as a part of each other. In this merry episode we’re exploring, as we do each year, the history, traditions and music of Thanksgiving. We love Thanksgiving. […]
A recent episode of The Christmas Show about the Fake Christmas drew an email response from a listener who shared an interesting take on how meaningless the modern Christmas tree has become. She wrote: “I inherited my parents aluminum Christmas tree. They acquired it in the early 1960s. I have not known what to do […]
Christmas movies we now consider must-see classics came from a very brief period of time in 1947. These movies are so iconic that we cannot see a Christmas season passing without seeing them at least once. Everyone knows them. Lines are quoted from these movies and trivia games are based on them. These are movies […]
The Christmas season is a topic of debate, celebration and broad definition. No other holiday has a “season” associated with it quite like Christmas. Just as the date of December 25th is declared fake (as discussed in a recent episode of The Christmas Show on My Merry Christmas) the actual date associated with “the Christmas […]
What do you do when you’re in a Christmas rut? What if you’re just not feeling it? How do you get back that loving Christmas feeling? In this music-packed episode we discuss how to have Christmas when you’re having a hard time – having Christmas when you just can’t. We explore where to find joy […]
It’s A Wonderful Life is heralded as the greatest Christmas movie of all time. In fact, it famously ranks in the top ten of the greatest of all movies of all time. That is pretty good considering that publishers hated the original story when it was written, that the movie studios of Hollywood rejected it […]
The debut of The Christmas Show of My Merry Christmas explores the Fake Stuff of Christmas: plastic snowmen, polyester Christmas trees, chrome stars, and resin Santa Claus’ are just the tip of the fake iceberg. We delve in to the bogus date of December 25th, that Christmas does not begin with the Baby of Bethlehem […]
Introducing The Christmas Show of My Merry Christmas – an all-new look at Christmas through music, history and tradition. It is not the Merry Podcast. But it is not far removed from it either. Instead of putting MyMerryChristmas-For-Your-Ears out there on podcast platforms and streaming channels we are bring it back home – to MyMerryChristmas.com. […]
The biggest news in Christmas movies seems to be the sequels or remakes of Christmas movies we have seen before. A Christmas Carol, How the Grinch Stole Christmas and The Polar Express are all making headlines for possible sequels in the works. When was the last time a Christmas remake or sequel did anything other […]
The annual recognition of Leon Day is still in its infancy. Less than 30 years old, Leon Day began as an Internet marker of the half-way point to Christmas — a countdown to the countdown to Christmas celebrated in online communities, message boards and forums dedicated to celebrating Christmas in the mid-1990s. It is now […]
