This is a flashback to four years ago. Yeah, hashtag it with Twirl-back Tuesday or something clever. I missed Music Monday but I can’t let this wait another week. It’s too important. Honestly, I was a bit slow working up to a Christmas spirit this year. I was beginning to think after this election, the…
Tag: Christmas music
Christmas Songs, Spongebob–and a Poem by Naomi Shihab Nye
I’ve been going back over some of the holiday posts I’ve made on this blog since I started it back in 2008. What follows here is an adaptation of one from two years ago, that is worth coming back to. Besides it sort of ties into the one a couple of days ago about not…
My Sweetheart Playing Christmas Songs on the Piano
Okay, so one last post about Christmas music because my honey just uploaded these yesterday for Christmas day and I still want to keep some of that peace-on-earth spirit going. This Friday we will be enjoying Christmas with Brian’s family in Wilkes-Barre, and besides my mother used to celebrate until at least the first of…
Random Favorite Christmas Song #4, “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day”
I don’t even want to hear it. Don’t tell me Christmas is over. I can’t just go cold turkey on Christmas music like that. At least the U.K. and Canada have Boxing Day, even if they cannot give me a good explanation of exactly what that is. Why can’t I have 12 days of Christmas…
Random Favorite Christmas Song #2, Michael Bublé’s “Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)”
Okay, the shopping is done, though I do need to get out for a bottle of bubbly tomorrow. Speaking of Bubbly, Michael Bublé (I know, Michael, I know how to pronounce it, but I just couldn’t stop myself. Bad puns are my life.) is the singer of this next favorite Christmas song. Now, there have been…