Of Christmas as long, long ago is my new book arriving for the 2025 Christmas season.

Find out what Christmas was like centuries ago.

Sneak preview, it was weird, and spooky, and rowdy.

Kind of gross sometimes.

Find it wherever books are sold in hardcover from Lions Press and audiobook from recorded books.

It's Christmas as you've never seen it before, and it makes a great gift.

Hey everyone, it's Brian.

Back again as we enter these final days leading up to Christmas of 2025.

This episode arrives on Christmas Eve Eve.

Anticipation is high. Last-minute activities are bustling, if not frenzied. Maybe you're departing for somewhere, or people are arriving from

out of town. Perhaps you're visiting your friends and neighbors to deliver gifts and tidings of

comfort and joy. It's a time for togetherness, movies and music, prepping for a feast,

baking, indulging, wrapping gifts, and of course, reminiscing. And to that end, I'm calling

one more family gathering for this season, where members of the Christmas past family share

some of their favorite Christmas memories.

Hearing and sharing your memories has always been one of my favorite parts of doing Christmas past. Everybody's memories are uniquely their own, and hearing them allows us to experience

Christmas briefly through someone else's eyes. We hear about Christmases in other parts of the

country, in the world, from decades long past,

in settings we've never experienced ourselves, or involving traditions we've never known firsthand.

So I want to thank everyone who shared a Christmas memory with me this season and every season in the past.

Since Christmas past began, I've been lucky to share nearly 200 of your memories,

nearly 200 little glimpses into the many possibilities for experiencing this favorite

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