Christmas

Cheer

At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.   Thomas Tusser   Thomas Tusser (c. 1524 – 3 May 1580) was an English poet and farmer, best known for his instructional poem Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry,… Read More ›

You’re A Mean One

Christmas has two all-time great recognized villains, Ebenezer Scrooge and Mr. Grinch.  Of the two, the Grinch has the least amount of coverage.  Dicken’s villain, Scrooge has forty-three (at last count) different movie versions of A Christmas Carol.  Whereas the… Read More ›

The Christmas Carol(s)

The Charles Dickens short novella, A Christmas Carol, is only 31,096 words, which took the author ninety minutes to read during performances.  Dickens took about 6 weeks to write it and it is probably his most well-known work due to… Read More ›