I know it is officially a bit early to welcome the New Year, but boy am I ready for it?  (Someone recently told me it is supposed to get better for “year of the Rat” on the 7th December.

Anyway, I have been missing wearing a ring on my ring finger.  I used to toy with it like a worry bead, or a Tibetan prayer wheel.  So I have started wearing my grandmother’s wedding ring.  Like me, she was a Taurus, and emerald was her birth stone.  I love it – and it makes me think of her.