All Entries in the "Christmas" Category
Gingerbread People: The Controversy (audio)
One of the most intense controversies sweeping America: Gingerbread People. I’ve been overwhelmed with emails and phone calls asking if I would do a little digging to better understand what’s at the bottom of gingerbread people. Specifically, the gingerbread men – they appear to be naked. The women, however – clothed. That’s the crux of [...]
The 18 Days of Christmas are Coming!
Last year I introduced a major giveaway on my radio program called The 17 Days of Christmas. From the beginning of December, there were 17 program days that led up to Christmas Eve, our last program before Christmas Day. This year beginning on December 1, there will be 18 program days leading up to Friday, [...]
The Christmas Spirit and Customer Service: Return of the Grinch
By Christopher Gabriel, CGabriel.com Part 2 of The Christmas Spirit and Customer Service. Part 1 was published December 8, 2007 I look forward to the month of December and Christmas more than any other time of the year. The music, the decorations, the meaning of the holiday, the snow - so much good cheer in the air. [...]
Merry Bailouts to All, and to All a Good Night
By Christopher Gabriel, CGabriel.com Since 1927, TIME Magazine has chosen a Man of the Year. The honor was later renamed Person of the Year for the man, woman or idea that “for better or worse, has most influenced events in the preceeding year.” I believe we have arrived at a point in our history that TIME must now select [...]
My Daughter, A Snowman and a Lesson
It’s the first week of December here in Minneapolis and it’s snowing. A lot. If you’re scoring at home, today’s heavy snow makes it two large snow days over the past 96 hours. 10 years ago, no one would blink at that. But it’s been at least four years since that kind of snow has fallen [...]
“Good Morning!”… Now, Who Did I Offend?
Shortly after last season’s women’s college basketball championship game between Tennessee and Rutgers, talk radio host Don Imus offered up his now-infamous reference to the Rutgers players, calling them “nappy-headed ho’s”. Misguided, short-sighted and just plain ignorant? Absolutely. But worthy of him being fired? Hardly. And yet, good soldiers that they are, the Reverends Jesse [...]
