A holly Dolly Christmas sounds perfect. During an appearance on TalkShopLive recently, Dolly Parton talked about some of her most cherished Christmas traditions with her family, with one of her favorites being what she called a "cookie night" she does her nieces and nephews. Of course, aunt Dolly dresses up with as much Christmas-themed clothes and accessories as she can find to get everyone in the holiday spirit... and obviously, her hair lights up too: "I wear everything Christmas. I mean, when it comes to Christmas, everything I have. Socks, and shoes, and sweaters, and earrings and my hair lights up. I keep them for a day and a half, from one afternoon all night until like the next day. They drive around the farm on the golf carts and all that. But, the whole time if I dress like Santa Claus, I've got to have all my Santa stuff on. And then when we're gonna do cookies, I gotta have my earrings that light up, I've gotta have lights in my hair, festive sweaters that light up, so yeah, I'm all about it. I would expect nothing less... I love it. And I want my hair to light up like a Christmas tree now, too... In terms of what Dolly does to celebrate the season with the rest of her family, her husband, Carl, and her both have a lot of relatives back home in East Tennessee, so they spend a lot time going to visit them at the holidays: "I'm all about Christmas. I'm a Holly Dolly Christmas girl. I've got a lot of relatives in East Tennessee. So between Thanksgiving and the first of the year the ones that live down here... we go home to see those in East Tennessee. And then we go around here. We just go to each other's houses, different time, different nights or whatever. And usually, you know, I spend Christmas day, you know, with my husband." In typical Dolly fashion, she had wise words in terms of her unifying "Christmas wish" for the world this year, saying she just wants people to have "good, peace and goodwill" towards each other: "So that is my wish that people are trying to put aside all their differences and all their things and just trying to try to find that peace that comes from Christmas and that peace within themselves and just try to love one another. It would be great if we could do it all the time, but at least try to make an effort to do it on Christmas because that's the Christ time." Amen to that, Dolly... if only it were that simple. Well, in a lot of ways, I think it is, but sadly, it can be so easy to forget lose sight of. It's been a crazy year for many of us, I'm sure, and this time of the year can bring out the best and worst in everyone, but Dolly's message is something I think we can all aim for, like she says, all year round, and not just at Christmas. And speaking of Dolly at Christmas, I've had "Hard Candy Christmas" on repeat lately, and even though she says it's not technically a Christmas song, to me, it's a staple and one of the classics... turn it up. "Hard Candy Christmas" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcPY3RIvtCw&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.whiskeyriff.com%2F&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE