Mosaics. Flowers preserved in resin (like ants in amber). All these things hand-crafted by Sam - and your daughter too - all beautiful work! I'm in awe. (And "awesome" is such an overused word,

Insomnia? #sleeplessness What natural remedies help with insomnia? I've tried melatonin, valerian, lion's mane, L-threonate, m-glycinate, etc etc etc. But not Z-factor or the others advertised on the radio

Tulips!! Splendid!!! Years ago I planted a hundred bulbs, and all but one (in rocky soil) got eaten by voles or moles or mice. One important lesson I have learned about growing my own food is that I must

Oh, to find a great book, to want others to love it too, and .... nobody else reads it. Been there. Known that feeling. You read "The Neanderthal's Aunt" at my request - God bless you!! - but

I finished the book (last month!) and LOVED IT, despite the tragedies. The nun, back from the dead.... now I have to go back and see what you meant by that. The dad and his ham radio; our heroine's failure

I'm starting Chapter 3 - THANK YOU for the recommendation. I love this author! Her voice! This little girl with all her questions. The awful nun. The martyred saint. Bought the ebook yesterday and love

Thanks for the recommendation. Just reading her blog and her bio at GoodReads, I love her! Like other teachers, she finds: .... students increasingly resist reading anything longer than a text. Of course

You really nail "stream of consciousness" - this is the quintessential #freewrite! This is classic: And write the emails that lead the people to knowing each other. Boom boom boom baby. Boom

LOVE IT And that you read such classics at 12, and that you said nothing about the nature of this novel to your parents, who had no idea. :)

Krisz, thanks for this - I'm about to start watching! The KneeOverToesGuy - literally changed my life. No more knee pain and stronger legs.

Thank YOU, Sam, for your fascinating and informative posts, especially on the wonders of electricity. Oh I love this - you are so insightful and resourceful! guess which part of the body is connected to

Lots of great quotes in this review - thank you - I really need to read Seneca. In college I was too young to appreciate most of the great wisdom I read. (Yes, "youth is wasted on the young,"

What a thoughtful, well-organized review. Thanks for this!

Excellent summary of a book - thank you for taking time to include all those quotes and excerpts! (especially the Mark Twain and Oscar Wilde quotes - personal favorites!) THE DUDE ABIDES

Oh my - I'm guessing your parents DID NOT READ this novel before gifting it to you! I was just 12 years old, and it hit me like a freight train. My parents, familiar with some of the author’s more

Thanks for the tip - I'll check out booktube!

Thanks for the screen shot, and good luck with taxes!

the story about the failed purchase - My reply got lost, and of course I didn't notice that until I'd posted. How many resources does it cost to edit a reply. Or to add another reply, to clarify and qualify.

That was my favorite part too!! I love this line: OK, let's forget about that stupidity. Let's talk about this book. I also laughed at this: the book was written "centuries ago" -- --Not even

I was working on this and saved information on How to Recover the password, but didn't get it to work, then forgot all about it again. For the past month I couldn't access Hive. Then I remembered. This