Another Personal Update, Back in Stock, and Last Chance for These Specials

Another Health Update

Hey Friends,

Happy New Year and a blessed Epiphany to you all. I hope your year is going great. I appreciate your love and prayers for me. A little update is that I ended up back in the hospital with an infection stemming from my earlier surgery. I’m home again (again) and, other than losing power earlier this week in the ice/snow storm, doing pretty well. 2025 is off to an interesting start.

This winter and holiday season has been more about managing challenges for me, rather than being super intentional and on the ball with every celebration. I don’t love that, but there have been lots of cool blessings in the middle of it all. For instance, earlier this week we were welcomed by our neighbors (my sister Rebecca Mackay and brother-in-law and publisher and partner, Andrew Mackay) to keep warm by their propane fireplace. Theirs, in contrast to ours, is working. They also fed us and we played games and had a deep long talk about Holy Scripture and joked around and Andrew passed out from laughing. (For a second. He’s fine. Let nothing distract you from your focus on me ME! MEEEEEE!)

It’s a gift to be loved and welcomed and I pray you are finding good gifts amid the adventures you’re in, wherever you are.

On to a few notes about some popular items that sold out in December and are back and some holiday deals that are disappearing soon. Thank you for shopping at our family store! It means so much to me.

Back in Stock

A few of our items sold out quickly but I’m happy to report the Green Ember Character Cards and the Oath Ornament are back in stock!

AND we are bringing back the Christmas Special for a few more days.

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That’s all for now. Thanks again for being so rad. Imagine we are high-fiving right now. Do it! Now I glide away and disappear behind a burning pile of Manchester United memorabilia just as a unicorn leaps into view and starts rapping. That was weird, you think. Let’s never do this again.

Stay cool. Hope we can high-five in person someday.

I’m on your side,

Sam

Here’s a picture I took earlier this week. Foreground: icy tree limb. Background: the house on whose porch The Green Ember was born.