Mood: ‘Corner Pocket’ by Count Basie
A Trio of Forgotten New Year’s Movies
There are not a lot of New Year’s movies that I am aware of, and this seems to be so with anyone I have asked over the years. In fact, really only one of the movies I will present here have any real direct connection with the time of year, two take
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Mood: “My Way” sung by Frank Sinatra
Be Resolute
A lot of people decide that New Year’s Eve and Day are a time for change, a time to enter the new year with a new frame of mind, with the impetus to make changes or a single change in their lives or goals. On the face of it, a noble thing to do, of course.
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Mood: ‘Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer’, Billy May version.
A Trio of Some Unknown or Forgotten Christmas Movies
There are almost too many good Christmas movies out there, of which I count ‘White Christmas’, ‘Scrooged’, any number of A Christmas Carol adaptations, including ‘The Muppet Christmas Carol’ among them. Of course, this is all subjective to personal preference. In that category are those perennial favorites ‘Die
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Mood: “The Christmas Waltz” as sung by Nancy Wilson
Being Santa Claus
I have been fortunate enough to have never lost that Christmas Feeling. There have been times where it was hard, s in the year after losing my brother Doug. But even then, there was the Need to continue the Feeling and Spirit for his daughter and writing and illustrating her Santa Letter for
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‘Twas The Caturday Before Christmas
This is something I wrote 3 years ago. Since then, I have one new cat, Gigi having crossed the Rainbow Bridge. He is CC, or Cute Cat.
As the entire lower level of the house I own and share with my parents is mine, I have name it The Bradicombs. I state this here
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*Semi-disclaimer: I hadn’t realized I hit the post button before this blog was finished, so apologies if this causes confusion*
Mood: ‘A Medieval Christmas’ by the Boston Camerata
Solstice; Halfway Out of the Dark
First day of Winter. Darkest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. From here on out, each day get a little ‘brighter’.
Of course, for most of my life,
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Christmas Baking, Part II
Busy weeks, and I find myself moving maybe a little too fast to do things correctly when time gets short to meet silly deadlines. ‘Silly’, because I set them for myself for my own projects on top of work and other things. Ah, well; at least with cookies, if the recipe is followed and
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Mood: ‘Christmas Revels’, various companies
A Time of Good Cheer, Good Friends and a Big Bowl of Wassail…
For a few years, now, I have thrown a small Christmas party for those I work with. It is in my nature to make something in the spirit of Christmas, be it food of sweet or savory composition, or some sort of a token Christmas gift, or
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The Best Way I Bake, Part 1
You can have your cannabis and vapes; gimme pies and desserts and cookies to ‘get baked’ with! For decades now, I have done most of my yearly baking at Christmastime. It is veritably the busiest damn time of the year, but it cannot be held back! I must
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Mood: Muppet Christmas Carol Soundtrack
Letters From Santa
Some 25 years ago my brother Doug had the wonderful idea to take a page out of J.R.R. Tolkien’s ‘book’ and write a letter from Santa to our nieces and nephew. We would try to write it together, but it was usually he who did the writing and also calligraphy in red ink in what became Santa’s
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