Thanksgiving is the day you can rally the most family—not necessarily on a Thursday! We had an informal one with some Class B bachelor SAR guys replete with Chinese dumplings, Dragon sushi and gourmet pizza. On Saturday, we finally got Linda home from flying and we celebrated with a more traditional feast. No daughters—as you can see from the pic below, our girls took a “secret sister sojourn” to Iceland.

Wrestling season started with a bang in early December! Buena Vista hosted (and won) the 6-team tourney and the Torrens duo finished up with a couple of pins and winning records. Another tough one last weekend. Matt just returned last week from a tournament in Walsenburg and swept the 120lb division with three pins.

We’ve laid the groundwork for the 4th annual 2025 Youth Writing Contest. This year’s theme is Superpower(s) Applied and youth will start putting fingers to keyboards in February!

Christmas came early! I took delivery of 320 early copies of Damaged, the Tyler Zahn prequel releasing at the end of February. I’ve already got 50 of them sold or in local bookstores. Pre-order today here or send me an email if you want me to send you a signed copy!