In a year soft on new Christmas music country superstar Alan Jackson will capitalize by re-releasing his Christmas album, Let It Be Christmas. Jackson is celebrating his 25th Anniversary and this album is just another part of that celebration. He’ll be spreading Christmas cheer for country fans a little early this year since the album […]
By Jeff Westover It is a sad story. As his wife lay terminally ill on the couch next to the family Christmas tree Robert May held his young daughter in his lap as they gazed upon a snowy December scene out the window of their Chicago apartment. Barbara, at four years old, knew all too […]
By Jeff Westover (Author Bias: None. Zippo. Zero. Zilch.) When we married we received all kinds of wonderful gifts. But the one that caught the most attention, the one that drew the biggest reaction and the only one remembered from those many years ago was the gift that was re-gifted to us. It was a […]
Contributed by Merry Carey Here is a fine old Christmas story from 1914 about Calliope Marsh, a woman determined to gather her entire neighborhood under one Christmas tree. A Great Tree From Neighborhood Stories by Zona Gale (1914) I never had felt so much like Christmas, said Calliope Marsh, as I did that year. “I […]
It is Thursday, September 11th, 2014 and there remains only 105 days until Christmas. Today is Crosby and Bowie Day, celebrating the unlikely pairing of two generations of iconic musicians for the purpose of Christmas. The story of their coming together is now legendary. Bing Crosby, in the final months of his life during which […]
Target. Home Depot. Michaels. Neiman Marcus. What do these big store brands have in common? Credit card data security breaches, the most famous killing Target’s Christmas last year. For consumers it happens silently. They go shopping and swipe their cards. It doesn’t matter if they use a PIN code or merely sign for their purchase. […]
Howdy! It’s Wednesday, September 10th, 2014 and there are only 106 days left until Christmas. Today is Jose Feliciano Day. On this day in 1945 in the mountain home of the Garcia family in Lares, Puerto Rico Jose was born. Due to congenital glaucoma, Jose has been blind since birth. He received musical training as […]
Greetings, it is Tuesday, September 9th, 2014 and there remains only 107 days until Christmas. Today is Michael Buble Day. On this date in 1975 the Canadian big band singer and songwriter was born. Buble’s ties to Christmas have become obvious with his now annual Christmas television specials and classics of Christmas re-spun in Buble’s […]
Life in the desert or tropical climates can make a Christmas freak feel a little lonely. When you get that hankering for frosty air, roasting chestnuts and one-horse open sleighing it is hard to be merry when sand is your snow and the heat of the sun has you hanging lights in shorts. Nothing, but […]
If there is a part of Christmas I cannot stand it is the complaints. It starts in September when people get on their soapbox about “Christmas creep” just because they see trees and lights for sale at Costco. It culminates in November when Nordstrom’s puts up their snotty sign declaring “We celebrate one holiday at […]
Talk about your twisted logic. Sony Pictures has signed on to develop a new animated feature based on the Bible nativity story. However, the film will shoot for laughs and will feature an all-animal cast, with Jesus portrayed as a lamb. Word is just reaching blog and media outlets on this project but broad speculation […]
