Description:

#Audio. #OpenLetter My annual letter to the man with the bag.

Excerpt:

So many of my friends this year are making posts and comments about how they wish the holidays didn’t have to be so stressful and commercial, or how things were more fun when they had money. And I get it, I do, because I’ve succumbed to that push to be the perfect host and felt the pang of not being able to get my husband the Big Thing he really wants or telling him not to get me the Big Thing I really want.

Links and References

• Read the text of An Open Letter to Santa Claus (2018 Edition) at MissMeliss.com
• Check out all the participants in the Dog Days of Advent.

Credits:

• The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub is written and produced by Melissa A. Bartell, and is recorded and produced using the BossJock iPad app and Audacity.
• Bathtub Mermaid album art was created by Rebecca Moran of Moran Media
• Music used for the opening and closing is a mix of Chris Zabriskie’s “The Oceans Continue to Rise” from the Free Music Archive and Kevoy’s clip of whales off the coast of French Polynesia from Freesound.
• Chris Zabriskie’s song is also used under some readings.

Contact:

• Twitter: @Melysse
• Facebook: MissMelysse
• Instagram: @Melysse
• Email: missmelysse@gmail.com
• Or, leave a comment on this page.

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