When you say “January Holidays,” most U.S. residents think of New Year’s Day and Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. However, January has even more to offer. It’s also official: Hot Tea Month (because tea is sexy, yo) Soup Month (it’s good food…) Learn to Ski and Snowboard Month (making February official “Recover in Traction Month”) Teen Driving Awareness Month (Who isn’t aware when the teen is driving? I’m usually clutching the door handle, screaming like a little girl…) Stalking Awareness Month (Don’t look now, but there’s something behind you) Be On Purpose Month (I discovered this one by accident) and
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The Year of Overlooked Resolutions
New Year’s Day offers us all a new beginning. Each person approaches the new year with a different set of hopes and dreams. For some, this year is “the year that I will finally finish my manuscript.” For some, 2014 is The Year of the Agent. Others will become publishers–for their own works or for the works of others. Still others will vow to read more books than they did in 2013. It’s easy to focus on our goals, to the exclusion of some other, less obvious things. While I’m here, and have a moment, I’m taking a look at
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