Contemplating Christmas when you are isolated and far from home brings its own unique pain.
Farmers’ markets are one of my favourite sources for Christmas goodies.
For many of us, Christmas lunch is the most special meal of the year – and I certainly want nothing but the very best for this celebration.
Christmas cookies can’t help but be retro – they are memory first, sugar-flour-egg-redhot-gumdrop-sparkle reality second.
Certainly, nothing would stop me coming home for Christmas, if I can. But I’ve worked a lot in theatre, and in theatre in New York, we work Christmas Day a lot of the time as well.
During the holiday season, Christmas specifically, it can be hard to be away from family and friends.
Christmas is a Christian holiday, and any self-respecting person of another religion should not celebrate a holiday that they don’t believe in. Clearly, Christ is in the name of the holiday, so there should be a belief in Him.
I think ‘Elf’ is funny, with Will Ferrell. That’s a great Christmas movie.
A Christian’s celebration of Christmas should be a lot different from that of nonbelievers.
Somehow we just don’t make the same boisterous fun of Holy Week that we do of Christmas. No one plans to have a holly, jolly Easter.
I worked every day – Christmas Eve, birthdays – trying to become a great basketball player. Everywhere I went, I had a basketball.
I like the idea of putting your Christmas wish list up and letting people share it.
When I was a child, I was living in the housing projects of Philadelphia. I didn’t even have a Christmas tree.
Like my best friend, I asked for drums for Christmas, and got them. But when he moved on to guitar, I realized two things: (1) guitar is a much more expressive instrument, (2) way more girls pay attention to guitar players than to drummers.
A simplified Christmas isn’t about circumstances as much as it is about focus.
Adults are tempted to produce and perform Christmas for their kids and their families, and they arrive at Christmas Day weary and disillusioned.
Every year, like a good Catholic, I wait for Christmas. Putting up the lights, decorating the tree, making sweets and then unwrapping gifts on Christmas morning… it’s a tradition my family has followed since I was very little.
For me, the spirit of Christmas means being happy and giving freely. It’s a tradition for all the kids in the family to help mom decorate the tree. Christmas is all about family, eating, drinking and making merry.
Grief is a room without doors – but somehow, with its tinsel and cliches, Christmas finds a way in.
I simply believe food is too good to throw away – and Christmas leftovers can be a gastronomic opportunity for the well-skilled kitchen forager. With a little imagination, there are a million ways to use up leftovers rather than bin them.
You are not practicing Judaism if you celebrate Christmas.
Felixstowe, the United Kingdom’s largest port, stops work only for Christmas Day and for crane-toppling Force 9 gales.
Some bands today have the experience of really working together and honing their craft. And other bands are very much like, ‘I just got a guitar for Christmas, let’s start a band.’ And you can hear the difference.
Fashion Week is like Christmas.
A title means marketing. It means that company’s coming soon, and you’d better get out the Christmas lights so they don’t miss your house.
