Wow, it is now months since I have posted anything to my blog, but I finally redid the template, and I am determined to start posting again. I recently finished the ninth revision of my second book, and after one or two more times through, I think it will be ready to submit.

Christmas was wonderful. I got to be home with my family. That is all I need for a great Christmas. I hate to see the Winter Break end after New Year's, but I am excited to move forward to spring. Here in Bountiful, Utah we are deep in snow. It is beautiful, and yet I can't wait for sunshine, greenery, and warm weather. Of course, I suppose we wouldn't have our amazing springs, summers, and falls without rigorous, snowy winters. Na ja, so geht das!

I have been reading through Pride and Prejudice for the umpteenth time. To learn an art properly, one must continually sit at the feet of its masters. I just love some of the words and phrases she uses.

a report soon followed

air of decided fashion

whose dislike of his general behaviour was sharpened into particular resentment

Upon my honour

insupportable

obliged to seek another branch of the subject

a most disagreeable, horrid man

there was no enduring him

Did you not?

To this discovery succeeded some others equally mortifying

made himself agreeable nowhere

To all these high-flown expressions Elizabeth listened with all the insensibility of distrust.

Oh what beautiful, vintage ways of saying things! I love it. That is why I write Regency.

I wish you all a Happy New Year!