Live Storytelling: Father Christmas
The magic of Santa doesn't necessarily have to be, well, magic.
Tonight I returned to the Story Club Pittsburgh stage at City of Asylum for their December story slam. The theme: “That’s a Wrap.” I saw some really great stories, both harrowing and uplifting. I’m always amazed at the way people tell stories and what I learn when I see them.
I told a story that I posted here as writing last holiday season — it was fun to tell it in front of an audience. It is about Christmas (as the kid of college professors in the early 1970s), good parenting (not mine) and the unexpected realization of a prematurely skeptical child (me) that magic is possible.
I hope you enjoy “Father Christmas.” Thank you to Molly McMorrow for filming it.
I have a friend who plays Santa in a supermarket. He looks like Santa with his beard and loves that job. One summer he was shopping in a Target 🎯 and a small boy came up to him and asked if he was Santa. He just nodded to the boy and put a finger to his lips and said shhh, I don’t want anyone to know that I shop in Target. 🎄So sweet.
Thank you! It was fun drawing out the memory.