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Happy Monday! I hope your week is off to a brilliant start. Let me ask you a question: Who shot J.R.? Do you remember? I don’t, actually. I do remember that in the summer of 1980, you couldn’t swing a dead cat without hitting someone who was talking about it. The season finale cliffhanger of

Happy Monday! Normally on Mondays, although I’ve missed a few weeks now, I put out an update on whatever I’m currently writing, when it might be out and that sort of thing. This week, something a little different. I wasn’t a cat person growing up. We had dogs out on the acreage. Big dogs. Any

And, we’re on the countdown to Santa’s arrival. Only 29 more sleeps! I don’t know that we have a lot of Christmas traditions in our house. Certainly, no very formal ones. Whoever’s around helps put up the tree, then the cats help pull it down. The wrapped presents go under the tree, then the cats

Only thirty more sleeps until Santa comes!!! I still have trouble sleeping Christmas Eve although, over the years, the reason has changed…somewhat. Don’t get me wrong, I’m still looking forward to the morning when I get to play with all my new toys. But, one of the things I also look forward to is other

Sometimes, life gives you an opportunity.  Most people don’t see them because they come in the form of problems.  I confess that I didn’t used to see them for that very reason.  I couldn’t look past the immediate problem.  Luckily, over the last few years, I’ve cultivated that skill and now find that the habit

It is the morning of Monday, November 23, 2020 as I write this. Only 32 more sleeps until Santa comes and just 39 days until 2020 is finished. Christmastime always makes me reflective. I like to have a mental wander through my year and, sometimes, the years that came before. It reminds me to be