Merry Christmas, Everyone

On this Christmas Eve, 2019, I'd like to wish all of you a merry Christmas and a happy holiday season.  Although I could do without the frantic shopping atmosphere and traffic during the week preceding this important holiday and get a little overloaded on the sweets and Christmas music, I also see it as a time when goodwill and community are promoted as Christ's birth is celebrated...the shopping rush will end soon but let's see if we can't extend some of that goodwill beyond the holiday season. I'm taking tomorrow off from this blog but plan to resume Thursday with my weekly feature on short stories I've read...