Jingle Your Own Bells

(Or Why The Hell Do We Turn Our Clocks Back?)

Oh, jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way
Oh, what fun it is to ride
In a one horse open sleigh
Jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way
Oh, what fun it is to ride
In a one horse open sleigh

James Lord Pierpont who wrote “Jingle Bells” in 1857 must have had one too many hot toddies before he staggered to a writing table and penned the song that every preschooler and kindergartener learns and then performs in the school holiday assembly just before Xmas break. (Depending upon the calendar and the makeup of…