Back in October a friend of my mom's read one of my Christmas poems (The Gift) and loved it.  She produces a small newsletter and asked if she could use it.  Of course I agreed.  I saw her again last week and she told me that she was planning to print it in her December issue.  She went on to rave about the poem again.  This woman has one of the most positive and sweetest dispositions of anyone I've ever met.  She's such an encouragement each time I see her.  It's flattering of course that she finds, The Gift, print-worthy.

I've got terrible “writer's block” on this year's poem.  It's as though my brain suddenly won't operate in verse.  We'll see, for now, I'm just very honored to appear in the December newsletter.