Patrick Donohue is the proudest Indiana native you're likely to find. Seriously. No one is prouder to be from a state that so many people know relatively so little about than he is. Patrick is a native of Terre Haute and a graduate of the Ernie Pyle School of Journalism at Indiana University. Knowing this, you might think he’d be a huge John "Cougar" Mellencamp fan, a man considered by some to be the Hoosier State's poet laureate. But you'd be wrong. In a major way. | There are some songs, a select few, that perfectly capture the feeling and vibe of Christmas.
They are few and far but when you hear them, you are immediately transported to a certain Christmas memory or time and place.
Today's song, Perry Como's "There's No Place like Home (For the Holidays)" is one of those songs for me.
Whenever I hear this song, I think of being on the road or in the airport at Christmasttime, surrounded by similarly excited fellow travelers also on their way to see family and friends.
And that's where I'll be today. I am headed home to Indiana for about a week and a half later today.
There really is no place like home for the holidays.