by Bernadette Nason | Dec 8, 2014 | Uncategorized
I’M DREAMING OF A GREEN CHRISTMAS by J.P. McEvoy* from A CHRISTMAS ALMANAC (Gerard & Patricia Del Re) That’s right. Green! Who started all this breast-beating for a white Christmas? Irving Berlin.** What was he doing at the time? Having a green...
by Bernadette Nason | Dec 7, 2014 | Uncategorized
A TUNA CHRISTMAS AUSTIN, TEXAS 1992 A Tuna Christmas at the Paramount Theatre, Austin, Texas I arrived in Austin, Texas, not long before Christmas 1992. In an effort to “get in the mood,” I bought a ticket to a show called A TUNA CHRISTMAS, playing at the...
by Bernadette Nason | Dec 6, 2014 | Uncategorized
MR. FEZZIWIG’S BALL A CHRISTMAS CAROL by Charles Dickens “Yo Ho! my boys,” said Fezziwig. “No more work to-night! Christmas Eve, Dick! Christmas, Ebenezer! Let’s have the shutters up!” cried old Fezziwig with a sharp clap of his hands, “before a man can say...
by Bernadette Nason | Dec 5, 2014 | Uncategorized
A VERY TEENAGE CHRISTMAS 25th December 1971 Here I am at age 14, on Christmas morning, in Winchester, Hampshire, England. I have opened all my gifts and I am wearing them. I was taught that you always dress immediately in anything you’ve been given as a gift to...
by Bernadette Nason | Dec 4, 2014 | Uncategorized
CHRISTMAS AT THE JEBEL ALI HOTEL, UAE December 1987Many of you know that I worked at the Jebel Ali Hotel, just outside of Dubai City in the UAE from 1987 to 1989. Over the past couple of years, I have mentioned in my December blogging the brilliant Christmas...
by Bernadette Nason | Dec 3, 2014 | Uncategorized
THE CHRISTMAS CAKE December 2011 was a truly shabby month in my neck of the woods. I’m not a naturally depressed person — though I grant you it’s easy to get despondent in the days leading up to Christmas, particularly during a historical era of...
