I’m the kind of crazy Christmas junkie that Hallmark has made a mint on. I still cry every time Kevin McCallister runs across the foyer floor and leaps into Catherine O’Hara’s arms, I can recite Hugh ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: We wrote this back in 2021, but with the holiday season back once again we felt like it was the perfect time to update it. There's nothing that brings the world together more than ...

In the new book All American Christmas, Shannon Bream of Fox News Channel says that "Christmas reminds me of how blessed I am." Music at this holiday time of year time figures prominently in the essay ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...