Category Archives: Cultural Leitmotifs
Holiday Spirit(s)
I was the last child of three. And with each Christmas, my older siblings’ interests in the holiday waned. My mother, too, seemed to care a little less about all the preparations each year. So, in the void they left … Continue reading
Posted in Christmas, Cultural Leitmotifs, Monsters, Reflections
Tagged Christmas, Creature from the Black Lagoon, G.I. Joe, Gumby, Holiday Spirit, Perry Como, Tarzan
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Fruitcake Weather
It’s always the same: a morning arrives in late November, and my friend, as though officially inaugurating the Christmas time of year that exhilarates her imagination and fuels the blaze of her heart, announces: “It’s fruitcake weather! Fetch our buggy. … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Christmas, Cultural Leitmotifs, Reflections
Tagged A Christmas Carol, A Christmas Memory, Charles Dickens, Christmas, Fruitcake, Holiday, Stephen Nissenbaum, The Battle for Christmas, The Life Book of Christmas, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Truman Capote, Washington Irving
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