I haven’t posted recently for a couple of reasons. The first is I love my picture of me and Buckeroo (that’s my deer’s new name as he’s the smallest of the three bucks who visit us, unless you count Nubby, who is still just a baby) and I like having it as the first thing on my blog. But the other reason is because I’ve been writing.

Anyone who writes has heard about patience, although most of us don’t have any. Here’s what I’ve learned in the last few days of the year…