My novella the Christmas Spirits is now available as a hardcover. You can watch a video about it on my YouTube Channel, and it’s available for Kindle in the US and the UK.

It is an updating of a book I have loved deeply all of my life, Dickens’ a Christmas Carol.
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I have seen 65 Christmases and remember 61 of them, and yet every year at this time, I find myself deeply moved and filled with an upwelling of hope and joy that is quite unquenchable, and is as intense right now as it was when I was a little boy, looking up into the stars of the holy night, half expecting to see Jesus and half expecting to see Santa on his sleigh.
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With the holiday season in full swing, many people find themselves battling a form of the "holiday blues." And for many women coping with obesity and depression, new research finds that improving your mood might be the link to losing weight–something that’s good to know during the holiday season, which is a time filled with fattening foods!
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