Kim McMahill

New Year’s Eve is thought of by many as the biggest excuse of the year to eat, drink, and be merry, while New Year’s Day is often a time to relax and enjoy time with family and friends, reminiscing about the past year, making resolutions, and planning for the twelve months to come. I generally don’t make resolutions, but this year I may make an exception, but I’m going to keep it simple. Actually, that’s my resolution—to simplify my life to allow more time for the important things. I hope everyone has a happy, healthy, safe, and prosperous new year.

Here's a meme I created using a scene from chapter one in A Foundation of Fear .

Here’s a toast to all of my friends, fans, followers, and family. I hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday season. Best wishes and thank you for being a part of my real and fictional worlds. Merry Christmas!

This year the Winter Solstice falls on December 22. The Winter Solstice marks the beginning of winter and it is the shortest day of the year. In fact, at the North Pole the sun never rises on this day, and while the northern hemisphere is experiencing its shortest day of the year, the southern hemisphere is enjoying the first day of summer.

Here's another one of the memes from the archives, so to speak, for A Foundation of Fear .

“A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine and renews his life through reading new books, traveling to new places, making new friends, taking up new hobbies and adopting new viewpoints.” - Wildred Peterson-

As I’ve mentioned before, I’m not the overly-exuberant type when it comes to holiday s, but this year I’m making an effort to get a little more into the spirit by exploring as many Christmas festivities in the Denver area as possible. With that goal in mind, I found myself at Camp Christmas located at the Hangar at Stanley Marketplace. Camp Christmas is an indoor installation of displays that explore Christmas traditions, past and present. There are a staggering number of lights, and there are a number of activities for kids to enjoy like collecting their “merry badges” along the way or sitting with Santa in his sleigh. As beautiful as the Christmas lights display were, I was just as enamored with the Stanley Marketplace. I have never been there before and this was an excellent excuse to visit. Camp Christmas runs through January 5, 2020, For more information or tickets visit https://www.denvercenter.org/tickets-events/camp-christmas/

As I mentioned awhile back, I created a bunch of memes for the release of A Foundation of Fear and forgot about them until recently. I hate for them to go to waste, so I'll post them every now and then. Thanks for humoring me.

December has some of the most important holidays, along with a few dates set aside just for fun. Here’s what’s coming up. December 7 - Pearl Harbor Day December 12 – Poinsettia Day December 13 – Friday the 13 th December 22 – Chanukah (last 8 days) and the Winter Solstice December 25 – Christmas December 26 – Boxing Day and Kwanzaa December 27 – National Fruitcake Day December 31 – New Year’s Eve