Santa Land Podcast

Over breakfast, Tom makes a declaration: "All I have are needs and a clock." David listens quietly, as he always does—offering love and steadiness in the face of Tom's unraveling thoughts. In this small, quiet chapter, David suggests a new way forward: write your truth, even if only for me.   In Chapter Six, the story deepens. Tom reflects on his earlier novels—"teenagers run amok," he calls them—...

In the second chapter of Santa Land , we meet Tom—the central figure in this grown-up fairytale. He's sitting at his desk, wrestling with the opening line of his next novel. A sentence that won't come. A deadline he can't meet. A silence that won't break.   Tom is late. Past due. But what he's really struggling with isn't just the story—it's what the story is asking him to face.   This chapter is...

Tom sifts through the small objects on his desk—trinkets, toys, forgotten gifts—and begins to wonder: what are these things trying to say? As he reflects on an old dowager who left nothing of value in her safety deposit box, he begins to question what we hold onto… and why. But the real reason for his delay becomes clear: Grief has arrived. With a tin star and a mouth full of empty promises, it br...

In Chapter Three, Tom sits at the edge of a memory, the air around him full of whispers—some real, some imagined. As he wrestles with the creative process, sound and silence mingle, pulling him between presence and the past. Amid this unfolding, we meet Kellie—the first of "The 5"—and glimpse the impact of a soul who saw him when he couldn't fully see himself. This chapter is soft, scattered, huma...

In this first chapter of Santa Land , we meet a small cricket—and something much bigger: a feeling. One that whispers in the dark, asking, "Are you still in there?"   Host and creator Tony Felice invites you into a grown-up fairytale written during a time of personal transformation and healing. With every word, every pause, and every breath, this story begins to unfold—not just as narrative, but a...

Have you ever wished there was a place you could go… where you didn't have to fit in, where you didn't have to explain yourself— a place where you could just be … and still be loved?   Welcome to Santa Land .   I'm Tony Felice—and each episode, I'll read you a ten-minute story from a grown-up fairytale I've written… followed by a quiet conversation about what it means.   Tom is late, and his edito...