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🗓️ 6 December 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Of Christmas as long, long ago is my new book arriving for the 2025 Christmas season. |
| 0:06.0 | Find out what Christmas was like centuries ago. |
| 0:09.0 | Sneak preview, it was weird, and spooky, and rowdy. |
| 0:13.0 | Kind of gross sometimes. |
| 0:15.0 | Find it wherever books are sold in hardcover from Lions Press and audiobook from recorded books. It's Christmas as you've never |
| 0:22.3 | seen it before, and it makes a great gift. Hello, everyone. The Christmas season is in full |
| 0:31.0 | swing. The tree is up, the carols are playing, the shopping and baking and merrymaking of all sorts is here once again. |
| 0:39.3 | And here we are just about a week into what most of us consider the official Christmas season. |
| 0:44.7 | And already here at Christmas Past headquarters, we visited the Great Dickens Christmas Fair in San Francisco, |
| 0:51.0 | a maker's fair on the Santa Cruz Mountains, cut down a fresh Christmas tree, also |
| 0:55.4 | in the Santa Cruz Mountains, been to a Christmas jazz concert, watched The Grinch like |
| 1:00.2 | a hundred times, that's my son Dashel's choice, and started working on this year's gingerbread |
| 1:05.6 | house. I make my own from scratch every year. So all in all, just doing a lot of the things that Christmas |
| 1:11.4 | memories are made of. And Christmas memories are what bring us here together today. This season on |
| 1:18.1 | Christmas past, I'm sharing your Christmas memories in special episodes dedicated just to them, |
| 1:23.6 | like this one. This is one of my favorite parts of doing Christmas past, hearing and sharing these |
| 1:29.2 | little glimpses into other people's lives and memories and experiences of Christmas. It just goes |
| 1:34.9 | to show how personal and yet universal this favorite holiday of ours really is. I want to share one |
| 1:41.5 | of your memories and one of the several other episodes like this one that will |
| 1:44.9 | arrive in the coming weeks. All you need to do is record yourself speaking into your phone's |
| 1:49.3 | voice memo app and send it to Christmas Pass podcast at gmail.com. Just keep it reasonably short, |
| 1:55.1 | clean and family friendly, and do remember to say your name and where you're from. Now, as a dad, I know the pressure of wanting to get my son that special Christmas gift that he wants most of all. |
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