• Brian Wilson (front row)
• Celtic Thunder
• Don Felder
• First Aid Kit (front row)
• Foreigner
• The Front Bottoms
• Herman's Hermits
• Josh Groban
• Julia Jacklin (stayed in the same motel, I was right behind her band at the desk checking in)
• The Kingston Trio
• Paul Simon (farewell tour)
• Styx
• Weezer

• Gorse by Sam Horton
• Smothermoss by Alisa Alering

• 2000 Miles
• All I Want for Christmas Is You
• Angels We Have Heard on High
• Away in a Manger
• Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella
• Can't Wait for Christmas
• Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
• Christmas Canon
• Christmas in the Trenches
• Christmas Is Really Fantastic
• Christmas Wrapping
• The Coventry Carol
• Deck the Halls
• Do You Hear What I Hear?
• Don't Shoot Me, Santa
• Fairytale of New York
• Father Christmas
• Feliz Navidad
• The First Noel
• Go Tell It on the Mountain
• God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen

• Cereus Blooms at Night by Shani Mootoo
• Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
• Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq
• The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
• The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
• Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh
• Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman
• The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
• Elegy for the Undead by Matthew Vesely
• My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
• Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty
• The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
• Don't Try This at Home by Angela Readman
• Fat Ham by James Ijames
• Mimosa by Archie Bongiovanni
• Boys of Alabama by Genevieve Hudson
• Neglected Voices: Peace in the Old Testament by David A. Leiter
• Queer Virtue by Elizabeth M. Edman

movies / tv specials

• It's a Wonderful Life
• A Christmas Carol (George C. Scott version)
• Miracle on 34th Street (the original)
• White Christmas
• Home Alone 1 & 2
• The Santa Clause
• The Polar Express
• Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas (animated)
• Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
• Frosty the Snowman
• Christmas Eve on Sesame Street
• Perfect Strangers Christmas episodes

food & drink

• breakfast: grapefruit with cherries, cinnamon rolls, breakfast casserole, hot chocolate

• Matthew 5:14-16
• Romans 1:16
• James 3:17
• Psalm 8:3-9
• Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
• 1 John 4:7
• Psalm 30:5
• 2 Corinthians 4:8-9
• Zephaniah 3:17