• Are you a Plotter or a Pantser for the holidays?

    It’s that time of year again.  You may think I am referring to the four inches of snow outside, the frozen ice buckets in the barn, and the gas fireplace emitting warmth without a sound of a crackle. You have to love Virginia; we go from 58 one week and in the teens the next.

  • Is It Beginning to Look Like A Lot Like Christmas, Yet?

    (10 minute read OR listen to the audio version with bonus material) The last of the Thanksgiving leftovers are gone. The turkey platter and fancy serving dishes are returned to the deep recesses of the china cabinet. Right about now is when I turn my attention towards Christmas. For all of the plan-ahead, shop-all-year-long, and