My column is up at Romancing The Blog today—a light piece on being a name collector.

Christmas shopping was…well, Christmas shopping. Our first time out we always nail the primary gifts for the two boys, and we feel pretty good about what we’ve accomplished. THEN I sit down and make The List. Stocking stuffers alone can cripple a woman, no? And while we only buy for the kids in the extended family, we’ve got a pretty sizeable clan. Teacher’s gifts. And so on and so on and so on. We’ve put barely a dent in it.

Today I’m finishing up final line edits for my Samhain editor and I hope to finish up something I’m working on for my EC editor.

And I’ve just been informed we’re out of bologna, so grocery shopping is in order. I’d rather be locked in a house with a crack addict going cold turkey than the short kid with no bologna.