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Christmas Movies In Which No One Falls In Love and No One Saves Christmas
Tired of the overly sweet stuff?
Christmas Movies In Which No One Falls In Love and No One Saves Christmas
Tired of the overly sweet stuff?
Christmas Still Isn’t Right
Christmas 2020 sucked. This was supposed to be better.
Christmas 2020
I hate this month. I hate it like a dumped ex-lover who's still completely in love Like I hate desserts when I'm on a diet Like I hate everyone who was invited to the party when I wasn't. I hate this month with its mock social calendar of virtual events That I fake my...
Christmas Indifference
This Coronavirus Year 2020 has taught me a few things I never wanted to know. The latest one is what it's like to be a person who doesn't look forward to Christmas. This is a very eye-opening experience because into my 50s Christmas has been as much my favorite thing...
Holiday Loneliness
In the post I finished an hour ago, I said that being able to add some foods back to my diet on Dec. 27th (while I'm on the McCombs Candida Plan) is another reason to wish December away as quickly as possible. December has always been my favorite month of all. Why do...
Staying Home Gets Harder For Those Who Live Alone
On Thursday the city of Chicago issued an advisory that included not having guests in our homes and it really upset me as someone who lives alone. The general advice is to celebrate holidays with only those in your household. I don't have anyone else in my household,...
Welcome Dialogue Christmas Party Makes the News!
Well, here's a story. Now I'm SO glad I bought that Christmas mantel covering! My new Christmas tradition is to invite any internationals over to my home who don't have a place to go and who would like to celebrate Christmas the American way. I do this through my...
The True Meaning of Christmas
It's my annual posting of my summary of the History Channel's Christmas Unwrapped: The History of Christmas. Part of our American Christmas tradition is for people to throw around the phrase "the true meaning of Christmas." What that usually means is...
Houston International Airport, 27 Dec 2015
I think what I like about being at an airport is that it's a kind of limbo. Right now I'm at IAH, where I was booked on a 7:28p flight back to Chicago O'Hare Airport. Instead, I'm now waiting for a 10:45p flight because my other one was canceled. So I sit, pace, eat a...
The Shine Is off Christmas for Me
Now that I spend more time with people who weren't born in the U.S, I see American culture differently. I'm fascinated by the things such people identify as being good and bad about us. I have new appreciation for our American never-say-die attitude and the way we're...
"Isn’t there anyone who knows what Christmas is all about?"
[I originally posted this January 5, 2006.] What's Christmas without tradition? The Christmas tradition for my blog is the annual posting of my summary of the History Channel's Christmas Unwrapped: The History of Christmas. I find it extremely relevant to the annual...
They Played Us Like a Cheap Recording
Demonstrators link hands in downtown Chicago last night. Jim Young - Reuters I'm so irritated today. Last night, while I was standing in Millennium Park with a bunch of families and grown-up Christmas goofs (like me), demonstrators were organizing south of...
Merry F@#$%^! Christmas, Macy’s
I haven't used my Macy's card since November 2014 because that's when I became disgusted with them for making their employees work on Thanksgiving Day. Last holiday season I vowed never to shop there again and I haven't. But I forgot to cut up my card and close the...