Ten years ago today my memoir, NORTH POLE HIGH: A REBEL WITHOUT A CLAUS was published. The book tells the TRUE inside story of Santa's 16-year-old daughter (me!). And the most amazing thing is,...
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The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger is about a boy on the Naughty List who leaves his boarding school a few days before his CHRISTMAS break is supposed to start, not because he can't wait t...
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The following is an essay I wrote for my Christmas History class at North Pole High. My teacher, Mr. Ghost of Christmas Past, gave me a shining star to hang on my Christmas tree for it. The Rugg...
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The following is an essay I wrote for my Christmas Lit class at North Pole High in the North Pole. My teacher, Mrs. Polar Bear, gave me an A+. From 1995, While You Were Sleeping stars Sandra Bu...
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I have some FANTASTIC news: North Pole High: The Musical was selected as a SEMI-FINALIST in the BATTLE OF THE CHRISTMAS MUSICALS at the Brookfield Theatre for the Arts in Brookfield, Connecti...
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Swans-a-swimming! The musical based on my memoir had its first staged reading this month! I couldn't be there in person (way too much to do here in the Pole this time of year), but I know the ca...
http://www.northpolehigh.com/2016/12/no-one-beats-yuletide-pride-at-north.html
Great news! My critically acclaimed memoir, North Pole High: A Rebel Without a Claus, will be featured THIS SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15TH, from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the 2016 Local Authors' Showca...
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What's new at North Pole High? We're putting on a show! My good friends at the Academy for New Musical Theatre in North Hollywood are putting together a staged reading of the first draft of...
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Ho, ho, ho! Wanna hear about something almost more exciting than Christmas? The Academy for New Musical Theatre has selected my memoir, North Pole High: A Rebel Without a Claus, for development a...
http://www.northpolehigh.com/2016/04/swans-swimming-its-north-pole-high.html
One of the best-known Christmas songs in the world started out as a Thanksgiving song! Not surprising, since the lyrics to "Jingle Bells" never once reference Christmas, reindeer, or a certain fa...
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Everyone knows BING CROSBY from his biggest hit, "White Christmas," which was released on Christmas Day in 1941, and became the best-selling single in history. The crooner went on to star in ...
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Lords-a-leaping! Exactly five months from tonight, Santa will be on his way to your chimney with LOTS of toys and goodies! I just came across this letter to Santa from a nice Jewish boy in the...
http://www.northpolehigh.com/2015/07/dear-santa-im-jewish.html
Last weekend was the first day of Summer. You call it the longest day of the year, but here in the North Pole, the Sun stays out all day and all night for five months straight! Kinda makes it har...
At numbers one through ten, the Top Ten things the North Pole misses about the DAVID LETTERMAN show are the annual performances of Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) by DARLENE LOVE . The first ...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Santa's annual Christmas deliveries have become an eagerly anticipated annual tradition around the world. But one little girl is worried that Santa won't come back this ye...
http://www.northpolehigh.com/2015/01/yes-virginia-santas-coming-back-this.html
January 20th is PENGUIN AWARENESS DAY! Many astute readers of my book, North Pole High: A Rebel Without a Claus , have asked me how is is that my family has a penguin for a chef. As everybody...
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Christmastime is past. Santa had a blast. Girls and boys all got new toys. Now sleep is here at last.
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You can hang on shining star on Christmas for this year, because it's ON! Santa has left the Circle. While watching the elves load up the sleigh, I noticed that a lot of you asked my dad to br...
Poor Ebenezer. He's the guy you loved to hate, until he found his Christmas Spirit. So it seems like an oxymoron to be looking for the "best" Scrooge. But that is the question I pose to you now. ...
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BREAKING NEWS: Christmas is coming, again. I know, I know. You're all waiting for the man with bag. He's coming. I promise. I should know. He's my dad. Like the song says, old Mr. Kringle is so...
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Here's a super fun Christmassy way to while away the hours while waiting for Santa to visit you. NORTH POLE SWAP is a match-three game for iOS with Christmas trees, candy canes, Santa hats, a...
Lords-a-leaping! We're just one week away from the most wonderful day of the year! In the air, there's a feeling of Christmas. Even stoplights blink a bright red and green. Those lyrics ar...
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So, a beautiful Christmas tree arrived at the White House this year promptly on the day after Thanksgiving. I hope Bo and Sunny aren't thinking what I think they're thinking. A week later, MR...
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American talk show host Jimmy Kimmel knows how busy Santa is, so he and his sidekick decided to help out and take care of some of that double-checking Santa always has to do with his Naughty and ...
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With less than THREE WEEKS till the Big Day, things are pretty crazy up here at the North Pole. I'm happy to see so many people are picking up my book to read on their Kindles or stuff into som...
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