Happy Sunday, friends!

Welcome to 2021. We certainly got off to a rocky start. I’ve gotten very little work done since Wednesday. Like many of you, I watched the events unfolding this week with absolute horror. I think when you’ve worked in DC and walked the hallowed halls of the Capitol and the chambers, seeing them desecrated is especially hurtful. I don’t know what the next ten days will bring, but as I said on Facebook, I truly hope this was the climax of our collective dystopian novel. 

On to better things. The Annual Review is in the books. I debated long and hard about bothering with one this year, as I spent half the year deleting the plans I had in place and replacing them with the word COVID. 2020 was such an anomaly, and I took so much time away from writing, but in the end, since I do these for my own records, I pulled one together. I hadn’t even decided on a word until nearly midnight New Year’s Eve. But that was par for the course last year, everything got delayed and pushed off.

There’s a lot to come in the next few months as we gear up for the release of HER DARK LIES, so I’ll leave you with this thought, and onward we go.

“Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.”
—Dalai Lama

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That’s it from me. Let’s all take a nice, deep, collective breath, and I’ll see you next Sunday!

Peace and hugs,
J.T.