Outline and (most) first drafts for book number three submitted and approved – check.

(Thank you Melanie – celebrate tonight!)

Plan workshops for 2011 – check.

(Spots are filling up fast – reserve one today and join us.)

Holiday gifts made and wrapped – check.

Sign out early, pick Maggie up from school, make gumbo, read, build a fire, watch a movie, bake cookies, nap, cocktail with friends, write a letter, holiday video, family pictures, sit still, sigh…

*Photo from Lisa “Are You Kidding Me” Eisner of the E.B White Chair & Gumbo:

“We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.” –E.B White (Author of one of my all time favorites with William Strunk, Jr.:  The Elements of Style – illustrated, of course, by Maira Kalman.)