Holiday Cheer Up

December 8th, 2021

When I was a child without parents, we escaped into darkened movie theaters on Third Avenue around Christmas time to avoid all the seemingly happy multigenerational families around us. As I grew I found lots of other ways to cope with loss around the Holidays. Here are some of my favorites

This show is traveling, but if it’s not in your area you can see some video on Jane Lynch Christmas . Com including one song with Dick Van Dyke.

If you haven’t been introduced to The Vinyl Cafe yet, you are in for a treat. We were able to go to their Christmas Show once in Portland, Maine and again in Montreal, before Stuart McLean died in 2017. His Christmas stories are better than any Christmas Party you ever went to – you are guaranteed to laugh – no matter what your mental outlook. Below are the links to two of his stories on Spotify.

David Sedaris on NPR reading from his Santa Diaries was my introduction to his understated humour. I have this book in my Kindle Library library and read it every year – it is laugh out loud funny. Also a great audio book. I can’t listen while driving, however, unless I pull over to laugh.

Another annual Kindle Library book for me – also great as an audio book – under 2 hrs listen. If you have been in or watched a kids Christmas Pageant you will get a chuckle out of it. Good stocking stuffer.

If you can find it…. The Thank You Note version of the Twelve Days of Christmas is very entertaining. I wish they would reprint it.

Thanks to Stuart McLean, David Sedaris, Jane Lynch, Barbara Robinson and John Julius Norwich for all this Christmas fun – just when I needed it most

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