Well, readers, it’s really important at this time of year to keep up our Christmas cheer, and so, courtesty of Cute Overload, a tickle puppy! (Santa, can you bring me one for my stocking?)
Thankful for many things in 2010:
–Finding a wonderful publisher, Kitsune Books, for my second book, She Returns to the Floating World. I just noticed I was wishing for this back (an enthusiastic publisher for my second book) in the Christmas post of 2009…thanks universe!
–Moving back to the Northwest, which for now, feels like home. And has lots of beautiful trees, great doctors and shopping, and a plethora of bookstores, despite, yes, the near-constant rain.
–A wonderful husband, who tackled gluten-free cooking this year after my wheat-allergy problems, and who continues to be my number one poetry fan!
–My friends, who cheer me up every day (today I got a little robot in the mail, in honor of my new manuscript, “The Robot Scientist’s Daughter”) and the new friends I got to make in California.
–My family, though they are far away, who are relatively healthy and happy this year.
Pretty soon I’ll be writing up my 2011 resolutions! I am wishing all of you health, peace, love, and all kinds of good poetry this winter season!
Jeannine Hall Gailey is a writer with MS who served as the second Poet Laureate of Redmond, Washington and is the author of Becoming the Villainess, She Returns to the Floating World, Unexplained Fevers, The Robot Scientist’s Daughter, winner of the Moon City Press Book Prize, Field Guide to the End of the World, and the upcoming Flare, Corona from BOA Editions. 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 Ploughshares.
Karen J. Weyant
Merry Christmas!
Sandy Longhorn
Oh, Jeannine, I had forgotten about Cute Overload and I really needed that cuteness just now. THANK YOU!
Big cheers on your great news for 2010!
Collin Kelley
Happy Christmas and New Year. 🙂
Radish King
Welcome home and merry Christmas my dear friend.
love,
Rebecca