The pop culture icon dishes out warm-and-fuzzy holiday feelings — in a year where everyone seems to need an extra helping of holiday cheer — with a fervor that may only be matched by Kris Kringle. Still, there's one thing about the holidays that this master storyteller from East Tennessee finds tough, and it's what she's always done to turn heads and crack smiles. Songwriting. "You would be surprised," Parton told The Tennessean. "In fact, I have been surprised, through when I try to write Christmas music for everybody else. Because, of course, everybody wants to write the next Christmas classic. But it seems like everything's been written about Christmas."