It’s almost that most wonderful time of the year again.

No, not Christmas—Contest Time!

As always we are trying to tweak the contest and make it as efficient as possible. Our team is working diligently to instill sufficient checks and balances to make sure it runs smoothly this year.

I suspect that most of you writers can relate. We have words that we hate and many more that we love--and yes, we have very strong emotions tied to those words. And now that this intro has become very wordy, I'd like to tell you about a word I love, serendipity.