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Getting one book published and wrapping up the first draft of the next book (a mystery novel! It's funny. You'll love these old girls!) left me little time to get anything else done in the months of November and December and so I didn't get the Christmas tree up until yesterday. Didn't start Christmas shopping until yesterday either. Everyone waiting on gifts is hereby notified that those gifts didn't get in the mail until today. 

I almost didn't put up a Christmas tree this year. Seriously. It was already December 21st. That's pretty much on the ledge of Christmas. The Grinch and Max are on the hill starting their downhill race now. But nevertheless, given some time to breathe, I dragged that darned box out of a packed closet and began putting up a Charlie Brown Christmas tree. 

It took forever. Each ornament was a trip through time. Down Memory Lane. I remember the wooden Santa Claus from when I was a school teacher. The beautiful porcelain Arabian stallion was one of my very first Christmas ornaments as an adult. It was splurge at the time. Could we really afford to waste money on a porcelain ornament? I think that was 1984. I still have that ornament. And it still makes me smile. 

One by one they went up on the tree. Gifts from friends, family and loved ones. Gifts that never fail to make me remember that person with a smile. Ornaments honoring old dogs, dead dogs. Loved dogs. A skeleton and evidence tag from my time as a CSI. This one was on the tree that I kept on my desk at work.  

This isn't a beautiful themed tree. It is a hodge podge tree of memories. A tree of my life. And so after the memories were enjoyed and hung on the tree, when the sun set and the Christmas lights glowed, I had no regrets for taking time on the downhill slide into Christmas to finally put up my little Charlie Brown tree. 

Blogging Again!

With the release of the latest book, Wet Noses & World Domination, I've come to the realization that I need to start blogging again. Several years ago I fell out of the habit of blogging because most of us were moving to social media. Many of you followed me on my personal facebook page at Sheri Rowe Langford and my author facebook page at Sheridan Rowe Langford. I'm not as good at keeping up with Instagram but my goal is to get better. I gave up on Twitter entirely. Sorry. I need pictures and more words than that. (Y'all know I'm 'wordy.')

Now let's look at the #1 reason for why blogging on the laptop tends to get swept away by social media - the smart phone. This handy device makes it so easy to whip out the camera, take a picture, and post it to facebook with whatever creative juices that would have gone into a blog post. And while it's nice, because it's easy, the reality is that social media platforms do not belong to the writer or to the reader and as I've seen recently, these platforms can get jerked away at any given moment. Many of my readers follow me on social media and we have become dear friends. The posts and images that we put up on social media, the contacts - everything really, does not belong to us, but to that social media platform. If an author wants to maintain independence from the 'borg' than that author must have an independent webpage with a blog that engages readers. (So when I tell someone that it's okay for her to shoot the rattlesnake in her front yard with her kids and dogs, I'm not thrown into facebook jail. Or when I call my cow 'fat.')

So my goal is to get back to blogging on the laptop and then just forward those blog posts to social media. That way the control is back in the hands of the author. And go check out my latest book, Wet Noses & World Domination. The swag items are rolling in now and so soon I will have some giveaways of coffee mugs, book marks, stickers, signed books, etc. for folks who post "shelfie" pictures of themselves, or their dogs (or other critters! For Farm Fresh Forensics people posted pictures of that book with their cows, pigs, geeze, ducks, and horses!)

Released December 16, 2025, The adventures continue in Wet Noses & World Domination!

World Domination: now with extra slobber!

Step into the wild world of a fully feral philosopher, where chaos reigns and wisdom is found in muddy paw prints. The greatest triumphs aren't measured in pasture victories, but in the hearts we open to chaos, companionship, and the lessons only dogs can teach. With dogs as a compass, this is a story of returning to oneself guided by the quiet holiness of everyday life and the animals who walk beside us.