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Day One: Monthly Letter
Dear Readers, Nobody loved Christmas more than my mother. Absolutely nobody! She often said that if she had a house big enough, she would turn one room into the Christmas room with a year-round tree and twinkling lights everywhere you looked. I've often wondered if that's why I keep a string of twinkling white fairy lights intertwined in one of the hanging plants in my living room window twelve months a year. My neighbors might think I'm very strange when they walk by my window on a sultry night in July and catch a glimpse of Christmas but I am my mother's daughter and it makes me very happy.
Yes, Christmas will be very different for us this year but Roy and I have made a promise to ourselves that we're going to put up the tree and all the lights because we know that's exactly what my mother would have wanted us to do. We may even attempt the miles and miles of outdoor lights that my father had been urging us to display for more years than I can count. And we're definitely going to uphold the Christmas Carol tradition we established when my parents moved over here in 1989. This season will once again find us front and center at McCarter Theatre in Princeton for one of their wonderful performances of the Dickens classic. And I know I'll cry. I can't help it. When Scrooge's tightfisted heart finally cracks open and joy slips in Ð well, I use up my yearly supply of tissues. You can easily pick me out in the crowd: I'm the woman with the Rudolph the Reindeer red nose and the silly smile on her face. (If you can't make it to a live performance of Dickens's A Christmas Carol, please try to rent the George C. Scott video version. It is a thing of wonder, I promise you.)
You'll find some new Christmas recipes posted for your pleasure this month (your sweet tooth will thank me) and information about Open Your Heart, a terrific volunteer cat rescue organization here in central New Jersey. I've been toying with the idea of putting one of my out-of-print historical romances on-line. Have you read any books on-line? Does the idea appeal to you? Drop me a note and let me know what you think. There's no denying it's been a hard year for all of us but we've made it through Ð battered and bruised but we're still here and that's reason enough to celebrate the holiday season. Whether it's Hannukah or Christmas or Kwanzaa, make sure you drain every drop of joy from the season that you possibly can. Tell the people you love what's in your heart: I guarantee that will be the greatest of all.
With love and glad tidings,
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