Happy Holidays (and Hobbit Watching!)
- At December 20, 2014
- By Jeannine Gailey
- In Blog
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Ah, the holidays. Now we have all the holiday gifts shipped off, all Christmas parties attended, only two minor disasters (fridge death two weeks ago and this week, a credit card fraud – all hastily taken care of with little major damage) I am feeling ready to get back to being a “real person” – aka a writer again – and spending some downtime with Glenn doing the Christmas stuff I love – stupid stuff that makes me happy, like watching the new Hobbit movie, going to see Christmas lights at the botanical garden or local zoos, making gluten-free Christmas cookies for friends. I haven’t done any of that stuff yet! Reading new books by Haruki Murakami and Margaret Atwood, maybe some magazines, finishing up a manuscript project…
Anyway, to all of you out there, Merry Holidays and a Very Happy New Year if I don’t get to check in before then. Make sure you get plenty of good hot chocolate in the meantime!
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.
