It's Hard to Hold a Candle in the Cold November Rain, but it's a great time for holding a mug!

Hello!

November is the best month for hot chocolate.

Now that I have your attention, I should probably back up that bold assertion.

Most people think that winter is the time for hot chocolate. The chocolate fills your tummy up--which feels especially great in the winter--and the hot makes you warm all over, which contrasts magnificently with the cold of the season. While I certainly agree with these sentiments and think that hot chocolate is great during the winter, the simple fact of the matter is that the flavor, consistency, warmth, and radiant good-feeling you get from drinking hot chocolate is a perfect match and complement for the colors, smells, activities, and general mood of late autumn. A golden/orange/red season like late autumn deserves a rich and robust drink like hot chocolate! Autumn conjures up recollections of a year well-lived, or sadness overcome, or warm and pleasant times gone by, or just a satisfied reminiscence of finality to the year before the hectic holidays befall us, or one last pleasant day before bundling up and away for the wintry end of the year. In short, the feeling you get from late autumn is just like the feeling you get from drinking a cup of hot chocolate before you go home for the night to end your day and go to bed. With marshmallows!

Unfortunately, I have not actually had a cup of hot chocolate at all in the last year. I think I may have to remedy that tonight.