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December is looking good. Got all my decorating done. We have a new tree this year and it is prettiest we’ve ever had. We put it up right after Thanksgiving, which we celebrated twice this year. Once with our Seattle family and once with my dad in St. Pete. It was wonderful to see our…
Still following a decision I made a year or so ago: instead of a newsletter, I am going to treat the blog as a newsletter. I have a big list of people who get my blog posts in their mail so I thought it would work. I know of at least four people who keep…
Things take longer to accomplish as you age. I learned this from a book called “Honest Aging” written by gerontolgist Roseanne Leipzig, MD PhD and published by Johns Hopkins Press. I threw all those fancy credentials in there so you can believe that: things take longer to finish/accomplish/do when you get older. Starting at about…
And today’s headline was how social media is no longer what it was…it’s very awful, apparently. I had totally planned on doing all my marketing online. But now I think, maybe not. I do have a real brick and mortar bookstore appearance on Saturday. Maybe I should line up some more, as this one is…
It has been a while since I released a book, and in that time so much has changed. I actually forgot to prepare. Totally focused on my weekend appearance at a big festival, I forgot the actual date, and only remembered it was before the big event. Then my mom got very ill very quickly…