Last week I attended a powerful and very crowded reading by Wally Lamb at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Wally Lamb publisher folks, please know that the kind staff at Bookshop asked me to stop taking photos right after I got this one. They truly wanted to comply with your no-photos-before-book-signing-time rule.

After the reading, my friend Peter and I wandered down the street looking into festively decorated shop windows and walls and rooftops.

Like this bicycle store window, I want to wish everyone a very Merry this & that. And have a Happy the other while you’re at it.