It’s beginning to look a little like Christmas. I put a new Christmas bedspread and pillow shams on our bed.

• Awesome photographs of nature’s power.
• For the musicians and the music teachers: young composers get to hear their works performed by the New York Philharmonic.
• Beautiful zentangles.
• Ways to beat writer’s block.
• For the writers: flabby characters? Put them through some exercises.
• Have you taken your Christmas card picture yet?
• Ways to use your books to decorate for Christmas. (I am seriously thinking of turning my TBR pile into a tree. The books are already stacked on the floor…)
• In case you need to laugh, here’s a story about what to do when your husband says you can’t buy any more towels.
• Some ingenious Christmas tree tools.
• We all know what we should be doing in order to live our best lives. Read this to get it all in one place.
• Interview with illustrator Jim Starr.
• Christmas movies to stream.