No Extra Day in February This Year!
This year isn’t a Leap Year. But since my Leap Day novella, A Leap Into Love, is on sale for just a few more days, I thought I’d reprise this post from 2016, a year when February did have 29 … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Holidays
An Isolated Holy Week
A Holy Week of Holidays Holy Week was not meant to be celebrated with social distancing! This week culminates in the most important holiday of my faith tradition, Easter. Passover, an important holiday for one branch of my family, also … Continue reading →
A Quiet St. Patrick’s Day–Spend it Reading!!!
We’ll none of us forget St. Patrick’s Day, 2020, no matter where in the world we’re celebrating–or not celebrating! At my house, we’ll be cooking corned beef and cabbage and hoisting a cold beer, counting our blessings that we’re, so … Continue reading →
Christmas in Merry Old Regency England
I’m posting a day earlier than usual because my week is filling up quickly with all the Christmas things I’ve left until the last minute–baking, shopping, wrapping! I’ve gone through my files for some oldie-but-goodie guest posts from a couple … Continue reading →
More Holiday Cheer, and First Kisses
Santa has finally made a holiday appearance at my house! This is my “Hoo-hoo-hoo” holiday Santa, presented to me by my daughter when she was a first-grader. I hang it up every year to remind her I love her–and to … Continue reading →
Braving the Holidays
The holidays can be a time of great fun, but if, like me, you’ve lost someone around this time, or confronted unreasonable expectations and clashing relatives, or agonized over your budget, holidays can feel like an ordeal. Sometimes the troubles … Continue reading →
Chocolate Conquers the Old World
Several years ago I read somewhere about an order of Mexican nuns who became so besotted with chocolate that they neglected their work, their works of charity, and worst of all, their prayer life. Morning, noon, and night, life revolved around making and … Continue reading →
Memorial Day: Celebrating Unconditional Love
Today is Memorial Day in the United States, a day set aside to honor those fallen in our country’s wars, and those who served and are now gone. Some romance authors have built whole careers on wounded heroes returning from battles ranging from Waterloo … Continue reading →
Oh, Tannenbaum
In preparation for some guest blogs, I’ve been reading up on Christmas traditions in Regency England. Turns out, the Regency observances of the holiday were quite a bit more subdued than those of the Victorian era. One glaring omission of the … Continue reading →
Halloween in Regency England
The Headless Horseman from Sleepy Hollow Ah but this is a deceptive title for this week’s post. Regency stories abound with tales of masked balls and costumed Vauxhall romps, but I’ve never read any that included trick-or-treating, or apple-bobbing, or ghostly … Continue reading →