11 favorite Christmas albums

We have a strict rule: no playing of Christmas music until we’re driving back from my Aunt Carolyn’s Thanksgiving dinner. From then until the evening of December 25th, Christmas music plays pretty non-stop at home. The music we listen to may be good only to our ears; we’ve had some of these CDs for so long …

My quixotic smart Christmas playlist

In iTunes, I have assigned the genre “Christmas” to all my Yuletide music, albums and singletons alike. This makes it relatively easy to add them to my iPod or remove them at once with the click of a button. (Some sequester their Christmas music to a different iTunes library, but I haven’t gone that far …