Where Have You Gone Andy Williams?

Sad news out of Branson, Missouri these days as legendary crooner Andy Williams — frozen in our minds each season belting out Happy Holidays! — is getting long in the tooth and may not even be able to appear at his annual Christmas variety show. Williams, who next year celebrates 75 years in the...

How to Manage the Online Christmas Card Exchange

Over at My Merry Christmas we have started collecting names and addresses for our annual Christmas card exchange. This lively event has become an annual tradition. If managed right you can enjoy the revived art of getting LOTS of Christmas cards in the mail. It adds not only a lot of excitement at the mail...

What is a decent Santa to do?

The magical world of Santa Claus is operating under dark clouds these days. Just this week the Wall Street Journal broke the story of in-fighting within fraternal Santa organizations and the Telegraph of London took the sordid tale of American Santas running amok international. Even our own feed of...

Upside Down Tradition

Here they go again. The British media is all a ga-ga about Christmas trees — upside down Christmas trees. This trend started in earnest two years ago when trendy trees colored with black feathers first hit the media. They were supposed to be all the rage. But at more than $500 per tree the trend never...

Global Warming Reaches into Christmas

It was bound to happen. The political debates of global warming have reached Christmas. But the attackers who swear your SUV is killing the planet are taking a fresh approach when it comes to Christmas. You’d think they’d be up in arms about the tons of wasted paper represented by Christmas wrap...