Are you surprised that my favorite Christmas movies aren’t everybody’s? No, I didn’t think so. Some of mine aren’t even ABOUT Christmas; they just have big chunks of Christmas in them. Here are five shows I love especially hard at Christmas, with links to more…

#ChristmasInJuly #writingprompt Originally posted in 2010 I made myself a tisane (“tea” not made with tea leaves). It tasted good, but I waited too long to make it. If I drink some when I first get the sniffles, it’s usually efficacious, but I thought the…

#ChristmasInJuly #writingprompt This was originally posted in 2010. Little known fact–you heard it here. If a person decorates a tree and stands back to admire it and another person comes in and looks at it and laughs, if the first person says, “[insert name of…