Happy winter solstice! Blessed Yule!  Yurumi | Deposit Photos Today is the day with the smallest number of minutes of daylight this year. F...

'Tis the season for gifts, and I have two for you today.  Gift #1: The final book (for now) in the Atherton Vampire  series is out.  The...

Tomorrow is Yule -- the winter solstice -- and that means our annus horribilis is almost over. And not a moment too soon, I say. It has bec...

The problem with this time of year is that every religion's holiday celebration is on a different day. The Jewish celebration of Hanukk...

I'm feeling pretty good about our holiday preparations here at La Casa Cantwell. The tree is up and decorated, as I mentioned last we...

I am almost ready for Yule. The cookies are baked (and mostly out of the house); the tree is up and decorated; the gifts are wrapped. Wel...

First things first:  Thanks to everybody who made this last week a success!  Allison Bruning had a health issue, so my post that was suppo...

"I want you to understand one thing," Drew said. "If you take away nothing else from this trip, you should remember this....

Yes, that's right.  After all my dithering, less than a month ago, over whether to participate in NaNoWriMo this year at all, I hav...