I feel like the calendar is moving at warp speed; it’s like Thanksgiving flashed by rolling onto Hanukkah as we are on a race to Christmas and onto the New Year. Everyone seems to be running running running. I am trying to savor the holidays instead of getting caught up in the fever. So far it’s been working; I am hoping I can stay in this zone! A friend bought me the fun tree that you see pictured to the right as a birthday present. It is the kind of thing that makes you smile when you look at it because it is so over-the-top fun. It shimmers and looks like it is lighted, though it is not. I look at it and think that that is the kind of spirit I want my holidays to have. It just makes me smile.