3(!) Days Until Christmas & Hanukkah!

Still many gifts to wrap, goodies to bake, package & deliver, finish decorating the tree... and reading for pleasure remains a necessity!  

[front hardcover of Fat Girls Dance by Cathleen Meredith showing 3 curvaceous women striking poses; book is arranged atop an open piano with cords displayed] 

Fat Girls Dance by Cathleen Meredith 

contemporary fiction  

2024 

Don't wait. 

Don't wait to be your authentic self. Don't wait to dance, to love, to pursue your heart's deepest desires... This story of friendship and audacity offers angst, humor, and compelling reasons to live life with unapologetic intention. 

Currently reading 

[Bad Seed: The Midnight Cries of an Island Girl held over a horizontal bookstack of 4 books - Just Playing House, Magical Meet Cute, Christmas Sweater Weather, The Royals Upstairs]  
Pre-Christmas gifts: garlic bread with zero calories! Zero fat! Zero sodium! Zero everything! Typos make it true, right?🙃😄  [nutrition label on a package of garlic bread; each entry shows zero] 

And finally, I scored a sweet deal on a little something for myself while out buying a few last-minute Christmas gifts (seemingly along with every other person in the state of Maryland). 
[a clothing store price tag showing a regular price of $16.99 beneath a sale price of $2.47] 
Whether you're celebrating Christmas or Hanukkah and/or Kwanzaa or simply glad to be alive unconnected to a particular holiday, I'm wishing you more of every healthy, peaceful, joyous thing possible.