Tag: christmas
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Yuletide Carols to Keep You Merry and Bright This Season
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As promised in my Solstice Carols post, here is my list of Yuletide Carols. In creating this list, I started with the same rules as before, but there are more songs here about the traditions and celebrations of Yule (many of which later became Christmas traditions), wassails (the Yule origins…
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Wintry Solstice Carols to Get You in the Spirit of the Season
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If you’ve seen my list of autumn carols, you already know I love festive music. Last year, I stumbled upon a list of Christmas carols that purported to be secular. But “Christmas” carols, by their very name, are not secular, because Christmas is not a secular holiday. (Again, it’s in…
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15 Cheesy Hallmark-Style Movies to Start Your Holiday Season
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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…
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Ultimate Christmas Songs List (Part 3)
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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…
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Ultimate Christmas Songs List (Part 2)
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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…
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Ultimate Christmas Songs List (Part 1)
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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…
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Christmas In Prague
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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…
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Christmas In Strasbourg
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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…
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Christmas In Munich
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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…
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This Altruistic Grinch Will Make Your Heart Grow 3 Sizes for Christmas
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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…