Still Too Early to Decorate   Still too early to decorate for Christmas, though I would love to surround myself with reminders of Christmas joy. Lucky for me, I allow myself to keep my snowman mugs out all year round! I have tall ones and short ones, and all of...

A Getting Ready Month...  Most of the people I know spend August thinking about school. If they work from home, they’ve been trying to juggle home schooling and their job. If they have to go out of the house to work, a trusted family member or friend is usually caring...

Beach Memories... Dragging out old photo albums reminds me that July is the most fun month of all – except for December, of course! I don’t even need pictures to remind me of how funny my little brother was on the beach in July. Our family took a two-week vacation...

June Is a Funny Month   June is often filled with graduations (in-person or virtual), and lot of endings. The end of a school year. The end of high school or college. It’s definitely a funny month, full of change. In this strange time of COVID, many children did...

Fun Things to Do... OK – We have now been indoors for quite a while because of the Pandemic. I am enjoying working on the next book and writing to friends and readers about the book I completed last year, The Girl Who Found Christmas. But some of my reader friends –...

Christmas Memories... Well, we have been staying home now since the beginning of March because of the very scary COVID virus. Today I decided to celebrate being home by thinking about some memories of a very special Christmas. I don’t know if I would say it was the...

St. Patrick’s Day Is Coming!... Every year I set a deadline for myself:  must have the tree and decorations down and put away by St. Patrick’s Day, which is March 17. I don’t know why it has to be St. Patrick’s Day, but I guess I feel a little silly if we get close to...

Another Book? ... It’s been two weeks since I started the un-decorating process, and I haven’t been in a hurry to continue. Instead I started working on another book! Friends told me that their sons wished I had written a book called “The Boy Who Found Christmas.”...

TAKE DOWN DECORATIONS?? ....    Yeah, yeah, I know. Some people think that January 6 (the Epiphany or the “Little Christmas”) is the last possible day for taking down decorations. And some people even start taking them down December 26! As if there were a timer...