Winter Solstice Greetings

It’s the shortest day of the year, here in the Northern Hemisphere, which means it’s time for a bunch of the holidays that we use to lift our mood when it’s dark and dreary all the time. We’ll be doing a bunch of travel this holiday season, so this is a good opportunity to mostly sign off for 2018; I may well end up posting something else, but I’m not planning on it and won’t make any special effort to come up with something blog-worthy before January.

2018 has been… one of those years, y’know. Some good stuff, mostly on the personal side (the kids continue to be generally awesome, my new book has been well received, work bumbles along); some bad stuff, mostly on the impersonal side (politics remains largely a garbage fire on a ship sinking in a lake of sewage). This is more or less as it ever was, and I’m trying to focus on the good parts as much as I can.

Anyway, for those who read this, I wish you the best for whatever winter solstice-ish holiday you celebrate, and a better 2019. Here’s a copy of the official holiday card of Chateau Steelypips for this year (cropped to remove the real names of SteelyKid and The Pip). That’s the sillyheads in Skagway, Alaska, on the cruise we took this summer, our big adventure for 2018. Here’s hoping for more fun and excitement in the year ahead.

The 2018 Chateau Steelypips holiday card.