#TisTheSeason

It’s the Friday after Thanksgiving, and you know what that means in many homes, including ours … time to get the Christmas decorations down from the attic and begin trimming the tree. (Or at my house, all five of the trees!) Yep … Christmas is upon us, and as always, it makes my heart glad! Hope you are all looking forward to the holiday season as much as I am.

Things are already looking up around here. My computer issues healed themselves overnight, which made me very happy when I sat down in front of it today, armed with naught but a cup of Earl Grey. I discovered I could actually respond to comments again without jumping through hoops, so yay for that. When Mark returns from his morning 5-mile walk, we’ll get started bringing down the boxes and boxes of decorations, then Mark will get busy putting up the lights, while I start unpacking my huge collection of Santas.

Nothing makes me happier than the Christmas season, for ever so many reasons, and I hope you are all set to enjoy this time of year to the max. Let me be the first to wish each of you a wonderful holiday from start to finish!

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

It’s that time of year again, folks. Yes! It’s time for LoDeWriMar, and I aim to take full advantage of it this go around. What is that, you ask? Well, simple. Local December Writing Marcia. Yes, I can hear you groaning clear down here in Florida, but I decided what I’m about to do needed its own name, even if it was a total rip-off of another, far more well-known event that generally has WAY more than one participant. Mind games, for sure, but whatever works, right?

So, the bottom line is, I’m about to do something I’ve never done in about 20 years of blogging: take a full month off to focus on my WIP. I admit, I’ve never even been tempted to do such a thing, but then again, I’ve never hit a roadblock on one of my books before. And the roadblock coincides with a month wherein I have NO local wildlife talks to get ready for presentation. So, being the quick-witted soul that I am (once in a great while), I decided this was the right time for me to give all of my attention to this WIP with as few interruptions in my daily writing regime as possible.

Therefore, I will not be present around here for the whole month of December, if all goes well, and my draft starts growing again. I do have two previously scheduled guest posts coming up, and will drop in to keep an eye on each of those, but otherwise, the plan is that I won’t be doing any blogging from today until January 2, 2022. Whew. Just typing that gives me a weird feeling, but I know that you guys all understand needing some time to focus on what we love doing most: writing!

If you need me for something between now and January, please feel free to email me, and I’ll get back to you as soon as possible. In the meantime, I wish each and every one of you a wonderful and blessed holiday season.

See you on the other side!