Happy Holidays!

Wishing you a pleasant time with no pesky, vexing people

Hello all,

I wanted to take a moment to wish you peace and joy this holiday season with no family fights involving flying mashed potatoes or pecans used as weapons.

Those types of holiday dinners are so unpleasant. And messy!

Do not use pecans as flying, miniature spears. It is impolite.

For those of you visiting in-laws or family members who make you think you need a straight shot of tequila or five to survive, I wish you good luck. Remember, this too shall end.

Just make sure it ends without you dancing on top of a bar like a crazy banshee because of that tequila and finding your sorry self on You Tube.

Be this person instead.

Pretend you are her. And HERE in front of this palm tree. Arms out. Fingers touching. Breathe. Try to move your brain to a soft spot of deep, inner serenity. If you can’t, and your brain is zig zagging all over the place, sneak out to Starbucks. This is where my personal therapy takes place.

The holidays are a splendid time to pretend you’re a Zen, ethereal, tranquilly calm sort of person. I am not. I’m just sayin’ all this. I’m too high strung and my mind will NOT shut off so I can’t be a Zen person. So practice what I preach, but know that I would find this loosey-goosey Zen-stuff impossible.

Practice that calm breathing, envisioning yourself in Hawaii or, if you need a quick escape from certain perennially annoying people, pretend you are sick with the black plague or Rcskjhwfgqjvdlsdf Syndrome and you need to rest upstairs in a bedroom for two days.

Alone.

For those of you at home having a quiet holiday with cool people, laugh away until your stomach hurts. Drink eggnog. Call Santa. Tell him who SHOULD have been on the naughty list and why. Tell him you resent that you yourself were on the naughty list, even though you don’t regret a naughty little thing you did and you know it. You so do.

If you are sacked out in front of the TV hiding from the holidays like an introverted elf, I wish you a stream of Netflix specials and popcorn with endless butter.

Now, if during this time, you need a short and sweet Christmas book,

you might try A Very Merry Christmas, here on Amazon.

A Very Merry Christmas

Or another short story in the anthology Comfort and Joy.

Comfort and Joy I truly loved writing both.

If you would like to step away from Christmas (I get it, I can only read one or two Christmas stories a year, they are so very sweet) you might try these two books. I made sure to write some funny stuff in there. Lord knows we all need to laugh these days. Well. I thought it was funny. I do have an odd sense of humor.

Reading will also give you a break from your pick-pick-picky mother-in-law and that bragging cousin who bops along on your nerves until they are frayed and frazzled.

Cool Books, Lots of Laughs - link for the books above.

Cheers! And watch out for flying mashed potatoes and Santa’s wobbling reindeer.