HOLIDAYS

Don’t Turn Out the Lights!

Holiday decorating might just make you a happier person

Brooke Ramey Nelson
The Shortform
Published in
Nov 28, 2021

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Screenshot from Instagram, c/o horst_the_hero. Author’s commentary in red.

Seen: Leaving Thanksgiving festivities, several light displays blinking their little hearts out.

Heard: Is it true decorating spikes dopamine, which makes those who jump the gun more pleasant than the rest of us? After the almost two years we’ve had it might be…

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Brooke Ramey Nelson
The Shortform

Native Texan & Mizzou Journalism grad. I’ve worked in newspapers, politics, PR & as a high school pubs adviser/AP English teacher. TOP WRITER?