- At December 31, 2008
- By Jeannine Gailey
- In 2009, hopeful
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So long, 2008! Here’s wishing you (and myself) a happier, brighter, healthier, and generally more magical New Year in 2009, despite the news reports, the economics experts, the naysayers.
We’re going to go watch some fireworks, eat some appetizers in La Jolla, and visit the seal beach before we ring in 2009. Hooray for warmer climates, for palm trees instead of evergreens, for dolphins off the coast, for scrub and cacti and hummingbirds sitting on bird-of-paradise leaves next to the highway. This is the first time in, I think, five years that I haven’t been seriously sick on New Year’s Eve, and I am going to go enjoy it!
Blessings and happiness and wishes granted…

Jeannine Hall Gailey served as the second Poet Laureate of Redmond, Washington and the author of Becoming the Villainess, She Returns to the Floating World, Unexplained Fevers, The Robot Scientist’s Daughter, and winner of the Moon City Press Book Prize and SFPA’s Elgin Award, Field Guide to the End of the World. Her latest, Flare, Corona from BOA Editions, was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. She’s also the author of PR for Poets, a Guidebook to Publicity and Marketing. Her work has been featured on NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac, Verse Daily and The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Poetry, and JAMA.



Joannie
Hooray for health! Happy 2009.
Karen J. Weyant
I’m so happy you are feeling better! Here’s to a happy and healthy 2009!
Collin Kelley
Here’s to continued good health, more writing and happiness in 2009.
Carol Lynn
Hugs to you Jeannine~
xo
Carol Lynn
Radish King
Darling Jeannine, as much as I miss you I am glad to read post in which you sound so cheery and well.
love and happy writing in 2009,
Rebecca
Peter
Happy New Year!
Hope to see you in ’09.
xop
jeannine
Thanks so much for your encouragement. Love and happiness back to all of you.
Emily A. Benton
belated happy 2009!