This is my time. Yuletide. Noel. The Holiday Season. Long, long ago, I adopted this time as mine. I live, eat, drink, breathe, hear, watch and wear this time. I enter it early and eagerly, and exit it reluctantly. I give it much thought. It gives me much joy. There’s not enough time in this time. I never waste this time.
1 Do you have any traditions (personal or shared) for the holidays without which, the holidays would not seem right?
2 There are lots of local holiday shows coming up: Central Wisconsin School of Ballet’s Nutcracker, Wausau Community Theatre’s A Christmas Carol, Wausau Lyric Choir’s Messiah. Do you partake of holiday shows? Are you in any?
3 Do you listen to holiday tunes or despise them? What are the greatest and worst holiday tunes ever? (I love holiday music, secular and non, but I truly wish never to hear The Waitresses’ “Holiday Wrapping,” or Elmo & Patsy’s “Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer,” again. “It’s Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas,” makes me smile and I am often moved by a well-done version of “O Holy Night,” but the more obscure “The Holy and the Ivy,” is probably my fave.
4 It’s probably true that there’s no such thing as a bad baseball movie, but how about holiday movies? What do you consider notable faves or flops? I love the classics — It’s a Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th Street (the first one), A Christmas Carol (1951 version is best), but am most partial to The Bishop’s Wife.
5 What’s your most treasured holiday memory?
6 What is your “Rosebud”?
