It’s official! We’re in the last month of 2019! It’s December – finally! I don’t know about you, Dear Reader, but I am very glad we are here. And the site is ready to go! Thank you so much to Crystal Jordan, who is amazing to work with and got us back on our feet web-wise. And heart-felt gratitude goes out to J. Scott Coatsworth, who helped us format our books and get them back into production. If it weren’t for you two, we’d still be pouting in our pajamas on the couch. (Well, okay, I’m still wearing pajamas but I’m in the office instead of the couch, so there.)

2019 has been an interesting year. There’s a lot of great news – the site is live! the books are up! – and some less good news – some vacations end up as disasters and no I won’t tell that story right now but man we’re glad it’s over. And now, as the year comes to a close and we settle in to enjoy the holidays, I’m pleased to say that we have holidays to enjoy. Last year at this time I was deep in day-job Hell and I’m so pleased to be able to say that’s OVER.

Sometimes, getting to the end of a chapter is the best thing that could ever happen.

So what’s new?

Noony’s on the left, Rachel’s on the right. She came for a visit in October and we got to hang out and mostly relax. (I say mostly because our Vacation Curse was working and she got ill with a fever of 103 her last day here, but I digress. She’s fine now, thankfully, but NEXT year we are NOT DOING THE VACATION CURSE, kthxbi. Just’ sayin’.) We visited the Woodland Park Zoo and the Bellevue Botanical Garden, did some writing stuffs, and some craft stuffs, and mostly reflected on the vagaries of life.

No, really, We reflected. It was epic.

We saw a lovely dragonfly at the botanical garden, which is the logo of Writer Zen Garden, so we both took that to be a good omen. He even let me get really close to snap his portrait.

Our books are back up and available at your favorite retailer or library, and I’ll get Six Geese Laid up shortly as well. That felt like Sisyphus and the Rock, but it’s done now and we can go back to doing what we do best – stories!

We’re hosting Coach Jonni over at our Writer Zen Garden Creative Cluster on Facebook for a free one hour Masterclass, “Journaling Courage.” I’m super excited for this one because I want to get better at tapping into my own inner courage as I work to bring about the positive change in my life like more books, more art, and more relaxation/mindfulness. I hope you’ll join us!

I’m still working on topic ideas for the blogs and we’re not done with the site redesigns, so that will keep me occupied for a while longer. But I’m looking forward to the new year and starting fresh, writing more, and making stuff. What about you, Dear Reader? What are you looking forward to?