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July 23, 2024
Christmas In July Day 23: Happy Hanukkah
#ChristmasInJuly #recipe #food #latkes #writingprompt Originally posted in December 2010. Please don’t tell me I spelled this wrong. There are so many ways to spell Hanukkah, I couldn’t list them all without running out of letters. I’m not Jewish, but who can resist a holiday…
July 22, 2024
Christmas In July Day 22: My Pathetic Tree
#ChristmasInJuly #Firefly #writingprompt This post is part of Teagan Geneviene’s Christmas In July blog hop. https://teagansbooks.com/ #ChristmasInJuly My Pathetic Tree December 26, 2009 I had a cold for Christmas (Thanks, Santa!), so I couldn’t get too enthusiastic about trimming the tree. It would have been…
July 21, 2024
Christmas In July, Holly Edition, Day 21, Part Three
During StoryADay May, Sundays are for Holly Jahangiri stories, so I’m going to use the Sundays of this blog hop to serialize one of the first Holly stories. This was published in an anthology still available on Amazon, and free on Kindle. LET IT SNOW!…
July 20, 2024
Christmas In July Day 20: Mr. Sugar Story Part Two
#ChristmasInJuly #writingprompt #freeshortstory #PersianCats Mr. Sugar v Ssssanta Read part one here. To please her – and to kill time while I waited for more “scrippy-scraps” – I wandered the house, poking my paws and nose into corners, nooks, crannies, and what-not. “Don’t you mess…
July 19, 2024
July 18, 2024
Christmas In July Day 18, Thursday Door Edition: Gingerbread
#ChristmasInJuly #writingprompt These were gingerbread-adjacent buildings displayed in 2023 at Norton’s Women and Children’s Hospital. A WRITING PROMPT FROM ME TO YOU: A gingerbread house in a big city. MA
July 17, 2024
Christmas In July, Day 17: 5 Off-Beat Christmasy Movies, Not Including Die Hard
Are you surprised that my favorite Christmas movies aren’t everybody’s? No, I didn’t think so. Some of mine aren’t even ABOUT Christmas; they just have big chunks of Christmas in them. Here are five shows I love especially hard at Christmas, with links to more…
July 16, 2024
Christmas In July Day 16: Sniffle Cure
#ChristmasInJuly #writingprompt Originally posted in 2010 I made myself a tisane (“tea” not made with tea leaves). It tasted good, but I waited too long to make it. If I drink some when I first get the sniffles, it’s usually efficacious, but I thought the…
July 15, 2024
Christmas In July Day 15: Why Parents Pressure Their Children to Have Kids
#ChristmasInJuly #writingprompt This was originally posted in 2010. Little known fact–you heard it here. If a person decorates a tree and stands back to admire it and another person comes in and looks at it and laughs, if the first person says, “[insert name of…
July 14, 2024
Christmas In July, Holly Edition Day 14, Part 2
During StoryADay May, Sundays are for Holly Jahangiri stories, so I’m going to use the Sundays of this blog hop to serialize one of the first Holly stories. This was published in an anthology still available on Amazon, and free on Kindle. LET IT SNOW!…
