Well, if the pope says so...

More bloomscrolling

Me too, Aziraphale

Let's go bloomscrolling

Celebrate Boxing Day with someone you love.

Come let us bloomscroll together

Furious

A light-hearted tale of giving birth and other traumas in Texas dimond.me/product/blac...

Reposting this for me. I am totally making this. I even have the fabric and ribbon!

YES

Some of the light and enlightenment December holidays. Today is the last day of Hanukkah as well as Solstice, the darkest night of the year. Every day after this brings a little more light.

That's lots of stitches and thread changes! Love it!

Flower of the day. #Flowers #BloomScrolling #DailyFlowers

And the candles keep burning. Gut Shabbos & Happy Hanukkah.

Saturday starts the last week of the Cozy Christmas Book-Bash. Here's links to all the featured books. Hope you enjoy them.

SATURDAY Dec 20 starts the last week of the Cozy Christmas Book-Bash. Join 8 authors—including me!—as we play games and give away books. It's not too late to join the Facebook group www.facebook.com/groups/12880... Check out my featured book books2read.com/BlackOrchids6

Something to remember

Happy EFRD Eve

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Bloomscrolling!

Lights and music! The best! To those who celebrate, wishing you both. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPgL... Graphic from the Cello Museum

Happy Jane Austen's Birthday to those who celebrate. I think of her scribbling away, a swatch of needlework nearby to throw over her writing, when necessary to protect it from unsympathetic eyes. Thanks, for all the decades of comfort and joy to me and the two centuries of same to the world.

Leading directly to the formation of International Brotherhood of Fake Anti-Union Protesters Local 42

Sounds familiar

Why do I wear an N95 mask? Bc Covid will happily destroy your immune system, more each time you get it. It can give you a whole new syndrome and/or awaken & worsen dormant viruses+syndromes. You do not want a mystery disease like my loved one has now. Our system does not know what to do with you.

I can't even. If they had to do this (no they didn't), why not women to guard the women's facilities? Right, I know.

LEFT: Heartfelt condolences on Rob Reiner's death from a kind, stable person who should have been president. RIGHT: Obscene gloating over Rob Reiner's death from a delusional sociopath who never should have been president.

Agree

Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.

Let's all be the shamash this year. We need all the helper lights we can get.

A lifetime of "thoughts & prayers" have done JACK-SQUAT to reduce or eliminate gun violence. We need to do MORE. It is the GUNS. #SadButTRUE 💔

I usually blithely post an image about holidays, but I can't do that in face of the two shootings. I'll let the rabbi tell me the appropriate response.

Progress shot of the latest #embroidery! I always find depicting water reflections to be an interesting challenge, and it’s a bit part of this one.

Friends - if you are Jewish, gather your menorah & candles. Even if you haven't lit it in years. Dust it off - dust them all off. We need to light a bonfire with the light of goodness & justice. Light it because you know that one little light can light up the darkness. #Hanukkah

We should all be reading Gareth's books, because in the end, ordinary people facing extraordinary challenges and rising--or failing to rise--to the challenges is what humanity is about. Love, grief, and growth carry us the farthest into a bright future.

Join us for another Saturday of Cozy Christmas Book-Bash. Authors, fun & games www.facebook.com/groups/12880...

Today is the Day of the Virgin of Guadalupe. Wishing a good day to those who celebrate, especially to those named Guadalupe (like the co-protagonist in my Black Orchid Enterprises Mysteries).

Today is Holiday Food Drive for Needy Animals Day. Want to celebrate? If you buy a bag of food to donate to a local Austin area rescue--online or in store--Tomlinson's will match it pound for pound. tomlinsons.com/pages/pound-... If you don't have a favorite rescue, I suggest Austin Siamese Rescue.

@Wildcat Sanctuary's Shadow drops by to inform you that today is International Day of Animal Rights. Human Rights Day also, but she's more interested in the other. Just be nice, kay?

That's great (and much appreciated). A group of cozy authors are offering exclusives on their websites; she might find several book bundles she wants, in addition to mine: books.bookfunnel.com/cozybookbund...

If she buys from my website, dimond.me/store, the code orchpr gets her a 50% discount.

Sleutherfest, Sleutherfest Yes it is today Join me and 100 friends We'll laugh and play all day HEY Also prizes, as in BOOOOOOOKS www.facebook.com/groups/cozyt...

Go get in the fun at the Cozy Mysteries Book-Bash. Authors! Recipes! Fun! Prizes! www.facebook.com/groups/12880...

To celebrate the Jolaboka-something Icelandic book reading holiday, go comment on BookyCall's FB post www.facebook.com/bookycall with a book cover. The most-liked one gets a $25 e-gift card from Bookshop. If you're not looking for a book, like my comment. TIA Contest ends 12/7/25 11:59pm EST.

Hope you can see this. It's the 3rd week of Cozy Christmas Book-Bash, and we're featuring more books than ever this week. On Saturday 6 Dec hustle on over to www.facebook.com/groups/12880... for free books and author engagement.

It's Light Up a Light Day but also Krampusnacht as well as National Bartender's Day. You do you

Celebrate International Cheetah Day. Or National Cookie Day. Or both. Both is good.

All you've got to do is walk through a historical cemetery to be convinced. If you can be, that is.

Guy voted for a rapist and just can’t figure out why his daughters are mad at him. Clearly it must be something wrong with them.