Phew. Nothing like a blast of arctic air and a dusting of snow to make it feel more like the holidays. Or it could be the stack of unwrapped presents on the kitchen table. But in any event, it is starting to feel like the holidays here in the Marks’ home. We’ll finish the Christmas shopping today and then it’s game on!

I continue to work away at the biography, but things keep getting in the way. The worst thing to get in my way is my own mouth. To borrow a line from Oklahoma, I’m just a writer who can’t say no. I am doing the DorothyL book discussion on Alice Tilton this month, and I’m reading for the Writer’s Digest genre fiction short story contest. So life has slowed a bit, but certainly I’m not bored yet.

I am nearly to my break, and I plan on a very hard push to finish the 1920s then. Gardner touched so much that even the recent stories about the cancellation of As The World Turns are related. The Perry Mason radio show morphed into The Edge of Night, a P&G “soap opera” on TV. As The World Turns was one of the others and will be the last of the P&G soaps.

That’s not even counting my addiction to certain on-line games and such. I’m trying to break that addiction and buckle down over the next few weeks to get out of the 1920s and jump to the 1940s. Jumping a decade seems appropriate since we’re about to do the same in a few weeks time.

Stay warm until next week!