The Joy of Krupmas
Welcome! If you are new to Krupmas, you are probably asking yourself why I, a more or less cultural Jew, would be such a champion of Christmas and Christmas music. Well it all started as a young lad, when our family was watching some old home movies, and I discovered that my older brothers celebrated Christmas before I was born. I was probably about 6 or 7, and man did I feel gypped. I'm assuming I threw at least a little tantrum. When I asked my parents why we no longer celebrated the holiday that seemingly every single kid in the universe celebrated, my mom told me that she had started to feel guilty about it. I'm guessing some yenta said something to her at the beauty parlor. Of course there was nothing I could do to change my parents' minds (they were a team), so I pretty much was deprived of Christmas up until college. (That's not completely true: A big shout-out to the Kelly Family of Westfield who showed me what Christmas was all about with their ...