It has been a while since did any personal blogging and tonight pulled out the box of cards & letters from the past year (s), started on a few handwritten cards and realized have missed is being in touch through my seasonal newsletter and also here.

I am writing this from Edmonton, on a snowy December evening, a hunkering down weekend temperatures plunging to minus 30, Hope this finds you, my xanga readers, well in anticipation of the Advent season  “ to come “ as we await the celebration of the birth of the Christ Child.and contemplate the coming year with both its joys and challenges.

Wishing you times of simplicity as the season can be one of many activities…big dinners, gift giving, mad shopping, and in this digital age, dashing off a tweet, a text, or a facebook update.