Tag: christmas

  • 15 Cheesy Hallmark-Style Movies to Start Your Holiday Season

    15 Cheesy Hallmark-Style Movies to Start Your Holiday Season

    I’ve always been all about that Christmas spirit. It’s my absolute favorite holiday, and fortunately for me, there are a ton of films on the subject! They’re mostly cheesy, low-budget productions with bad acting, unbelievable scripts, and unintentionally cringeworthy human behavior, but hey, they serve a purpose. My brain isn’t…

  • Ultimate Christmas Songs List (Part 3)

    Ultimate Christmas Songs List (Part 3)

    This is a continuation of a previous post about a gag gift I created last year and the delightful sounds that accompanied it. If you’ve been following thus far, you’ll know that I have 240 minutes’ worth of Christmas songs that I love just a little bit more than the…

  • Ultimate Christmas Songs List (Part 2)

    Ultimate Christmas Songs List (Part 2)

    This is a continuation of a previous post. I noticed, in gathering my favorite Christmas songs, that there were many that were either about memories or just had that traditional feel to them. So here I present to you Disc 2: “Memories”. 1. Once Upon a December: Anastasia Of course…

  • Ultimate Christmas Songs List (Part 1)

    Ultimate Christmas Songs List (Part 1)

    A couple of years ago, I had what I thought was a hilarious idea for a gag gift for that year’s White Elephant Christmas gift exchange. It would be something so absurd and so personal that the receiver couldn’t possibly get it anywhere else. I was going to make recordings…

  • Christmas In Prague

    Christmas In Prague

    Every place we went for Christmas was breathtakingly beautiful. Everything we saw was stunning. But when I caught my first glimpse of Tyn Cathedral, I gasped out loud. “I think that’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen!” I said, sipping a hot gluhwein as a live orchestra performed “Somewhere…

  • Christmas In Strasbourg

    Christmas In Strasbourg

    We had a lovely time visiting Strasbourg, the “Capital of Christmas”! The hotel we stayed in was very modern…too modern in a really big way. The restroom was see-through. It had blinds–heavy plastic ones that were designed to remain permanently open. And there was a big, heavy door that was…

  • Christmas In Munich

    Christmas In Munich

    Although my travel adventures have only just begun, my plan for doing so is to visit just one country at a time. Stay in a major city with an airport, take day trips out into other cities or the countryside, and really get a feel for that country as a…

  • This Altruistic Grinch Will Make Your Heart Grow 3 Sizes for Christmas

    This Altruistic Grinch Will Make Your Heart Grow 3 Sizes for Christmas

    You might want to grab a blanket and your favorite warm holiday beverage and get all snuggly for this one. Danny McCollum, of Sumterville, Florida, has a unique hobby–he visits retirement homes dressed as the Grinch to bring smiles to seniors. A Grandma’s Love It was his grandmother Fran who…

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