Read author Diana Renn's Substack today, "Surviving Holiday Creative Drift: Tips for Keeping One Foot in your Creative Life." She searches for a word that describes the sensation of enjoying the holidays while longing for our creative work. You can read the word I suggested in the comments.

I'm excited! The illustrator of the graphic novel edition of THE LEMONADE WAR, Karen De La Vega, and I finally "met" through email. We are plotting a book-event rendez-vous (a little tricky since she lives in Mexico and I live in New England). But we will make it happen! San Antonio, anyone?

I'm old enough to remember Debby Boone's Grammy-award winning song, "You Light Up My Life," and I was young enough back then to think it was the greatest song ever written. Ah, the perspective of age.
Photo credit: Sam Davies, Three Peaks Media.
My house with the Northern Lights behind it.