What inspired Mrs. Claus?
Back when I was a lyricist, I wrote a song “A Pause for Mrs. Claus”, about how Mrs. Claus never got any respect or recognition. I wrote a draft about how Santa Claus and she met when they were young but the story didn’t work and it was a little dark. My significant other works in the corporate world and one day when she was talking about the issues a woman deals with in that world and the glass ceiling, I saw what Mrs. Claus was all about. Thematically, I was inspired by a fight I had with my partner. One day she was unhappy with something I wasn’t doing and she told me how much she had given to me. When she was done, I told her that obviously she hadn’t given me anything because she was charging me for it now. There was the classic pause and overwhelming silence. Over the next few days I realized that, in my own way, I did the same thing. Can we give unconditionally? That’s the theme of Mrs. Claus and that’s her journey in the story. Even though she has to go fairly dark to find her e
