From Baking to Seduction: The Inspiration of Christmas Carols
“I abhor holiday music. It’s so commercialized and so annoying…” What?! I felt as if I had been stabbed. How could someone have such an aversion to a lyrical outpouring of glee? Were the songs I sang at the top of my lungs every December just serving to destroy other’s eardrums? Did no one else hear “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen” and temporarily stop to “dismay?!” I became defensive,