Category: The Best Christmas Stories
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Polar Post — Send Santa Email
Hey everyone, your friendly neighborhood Lancelot the Elf here letting you know that Santa accepts email now here at the Polar Post. If you’d like to send Santa a message, feel free to drop him a line: Parents: please make sure to fill this form to the Polar Post for your kids:
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What Thanksgiving movies are there?
The greatest Thanksgiving movie of all time is quite clearly Babette’s Feast. I’ll spoil that for you, right now. Just go watch Babette’s Feast this holiday. However, folks keep digging around, asking me: what thanksgiving movies are there out in the wide world of film? I’m going to make a quick, incomplete list. Mainly because…
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A Defense of Baby Worship
The two facts which attract almost every normal person to children [and tempt them towards baby worship] are, first, that children are very serious, and, secondly, that they are in consequence very happy. They are jolly with the completeness which is possible only in the absence of humour. The most unfathomable schools and sages have…
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Naughty or Nice — the metaphysics of Santa’s List
Turns out Santa Claus is a privationist. And assuming Santa’s privationist sensibilities can explain why coal for the naughty truly is a gift and not a punishment. Or at very least, as Tolkien would ask, “Which of God’s judgements are not also gifts?” Coal is a grace, even a sort of Christmas sacrament. Here’s how…
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Koschei the Deathless
Today for Myths, Legends, Folklore and Tall Tales, we’re reading Koschei the Deathless. Myths, Legends, Folklore and Tall Tales is another one of my podcasts featuring bedtime story readings — in this case the myths, legends, folklore and tall tales of the world. Now and again, I read one of my own stories or even…
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Short Christmas Stories : I Gotta Idee by Elsie Singmaster
If you’re looking for short Christmas Stories, check out I Gotta Idee by Elsie Singmaster in this episode of The Best Christmas Stories: Featured download: learn how to write your own Christmas Story based on thematic protagonism a la Dickens’ Christmas Carol.
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My First Christmas Tree by Hamlin Garland
My First Christmas Tree by Hamlin Garland is today’s Best Christmas Story. Featured download: learn how to write your own Christmas Story based on thematic protagonism a la Dickens’ Christmas Carol.
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Christmas at Orchard House by Louisa May Alcott
If you’re curious about what Christmas looked like at Orchard House in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, you should check out this episode of The Best Christmas Stories: Featured download: learn how to write your own Christmas Story based on thematic protagonism a la Dickens’ Christmas Carol.
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Season 3 Coming Up + Best Scary Stories
Season 3 announcement about the best stories series — both the best stories for Christmas and the best stories for Halloween:
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More of the Best Stories Coming Soon!
Quick announcement about the best stories series — both the best stories for Christmas and the best stories for Halloween:
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Why I, an Adult, Believe in Santa by Lancelot Schaubert
Why I, an Adult, Believe in Santa is an article I wrote four years ago and it seemed fitting to read for The Best Christmas Stories because it’s something of a meta-story about Christmas in general — particularly the mythos of Santa and why that’s a good thing:
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The Little Guest by Margery Williams Bianco
For the Best Christmas Stories, we’re now reading The Little Guest by Margery Williams Bianco. Really love the ending to this one.