Winter (Re)Reading

I never used to be the sort who waved goodbye to Hallowe'en and immediately turned to thoughts of the winter holidays. I put that down to being in Retail where I had no choice in the matter, and had already been forced to schedule, hire, plan, train and prepare for Christmas Retail (a.k.a. the most …

Holiday Reading (and Re-Reading), Part One

I tend to read most of my holiday-themed reads in November and December. It falls back to my days in retail, where I needed to work hard if I was going to recover any shred of joy to be found in the season (fist bump of solidarity to any of you retail workers out there... …

Sunday Shorts – “Merry Christmas, Mr. Miggles,” by Eli Easton

Toby Kincaid loves being the junior librarian in his hometown of Sandy Lake, Ohio. He spends his days surrounded by books and chatting with the library patrons. He especially adores the head librarian, Mr. Miggles, who is kind, witty, knowlegable about everything, and hopelessly addicted to Christmas. Sean Miggles is also pretty cute—especially for an …

December Will Be Magic Again

The hardest things about Christmas for me will likely always be twofold. First, a couple of decades in retail took most of the shine off the season, and especially the music. It's been a few years now, since I had my six-day work-weeks and dragged my butt home on Christmas Eve super-late (because it was …

Holiday Reads (Part One)

Okay, yesterday I fell short of my "try to post something positive once a day through December leading up to Christmas" goal, and I'm not going to let myself beat myself up about that. It wasn't a great day, that happens, and when my husband suggested we go see The Arrival, I jumped at the …

Sunday Shorts – Blame it on the Mistletoe

It's amazing how much I used to struggle with trying to love Christmas. Then again, if you've ever worked retail, you probably get it. So it's nice to return to Christmas and find it actually enjoyable. Also - Christmas stories. That said, this isn't one. Or rather, there's a very tenuous Christmas component to it, …