Editor’s note: The L&L team will be out today through next Monday for the holidays. So, we’ve compiled a (mostly) Christmas-themed round-up for you. Enjoy!

• Jeff Korhan on why you should write every day, and how Stephen King can help.
• Davey launches a new mobile app to calculate the value of trees on a property.
• Woody Guthrie’s list of New Year’s rulin’s. (See related here and here.)
• Thanks to the crushing Texas drought, a mistletoe shortage threatens a loveable (if somewhat creepy) Christmas tradition.
• The year in photos from National Geographic.
• Seth Godin: “No one ever bought anything in an elevator.”
• When was the last time you saw a robotic chainsaw reindeer? That’s what I thought. (via @VoiceOfTreeCare and @husqvarnausa)

Above: Image via the wonderful Jessica Hagy’s Indexed.