Advice | The best stories from Carolyn Hax’s holiday live chats

Carolyn shares a remixed model of Clement C. Moore’s poem, “A Go to From St. Nicholas,” by her dad, John Hax, in most of the hootenannies. What started as a vacation custom from the Hax family grew to become a hootenanny mainstay.

The poems are mini time capsules with their references to the political local weather or fashionable celebrities of the second — just like the 2012 model with the strains, “On Newt and Michelle. On Rick, Ron and Mitt.”