Celebrate the spirit of the season with these short and festive messages for friends, family and everyone else in your life.

DEAR READERS: I want to wish all of you a very Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. Christmas is a very busy time of year filled with strong emotions both happy and sad. The joy and the arguments can each feel louder.

The First Lady and I send our warmest wishes to all Americans as we share in the joy of Christmas Day and celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior,

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This holiday season, you can spread joy by learning to say "Merry Christmas" in a different language. Wishing a friend a "Merry Christmas" in their native language can give them a piece of home this holiday season. If spending the festive season abroad ...

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The Humboldt community is merry and bright this holiday season thanks to the artistic prowess of local artist Kelsey Olson. Olson, who attended the University of Iowa in Iowa City for art education, wanted to spread holiday joy through art this Christmas,

The new holiday movie "Very Merry Mystery" follows a beloved beauty shop owner named Bea as she attends a Christmas murder mystery party during the holiday season.

There are still folks to whom my yearly holiday greeting is “Merry Krimble,” a classic onomatopoeiacal Beatle-ism uttered on the first two singles by Paul and John. To people in the know, it was a Bat Signal of cool, or at least close enough to it.

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Only an icon with Garland in her name could have pulled off this Christmas song miracle. Before Judy Garland crooned the melancholy-tinged lyrics to the now-classic holiday tune “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” in her 1944 musical film Meet Me in St. Louis, she made her wish list crystal clear.