Holiday Gifts
My favorite thing about the Holidays is finding that "perfect gift" for the people in my life. I love the feeling of having paid attention to the wants and desires of my friends and family, and finding the thing they might not even remember they admired or commented on. It's my own version of a treasure hunt; seeking gifts all year to give during the Holidays. But this year, I was surprised with the most unexpected gifts - things I never even thought about needing or wanting. The kind of gifts some people don't even realize they're giving. The gifts of words. First, it was my friends and family who gave me words of encouragement as I wrote and re-wrote Marking Time. And as they read the various drafts, their words were complimentary, constructive, critical, and always supportive. Then I published Marking Time and the gifters-of-words expanded out to people who heard my book was out, who didn't even know I'd been writing one, who wondered wh