HAPPY 70th BIRTHDAY! Your cake sounds marvelous! Found your email, and thank you, thank you. :) Your vet with the Lyme vax... you were so much wiser than I. You held your ground. No vax. How's your homeopathy

Oh dear. MEA CULPA. Forgive me, young overlords....

THANK YOU - you have known these dogs (and me!) for years now. #Freddy is almost as dear to me as to you. And #Jimmy - oh Jimmy! - all your incredible efforts with him, feeding him home-cooked gourmet

Thank you! We knew it'd hurt and we'd miss him. I thought I was an old pro at this, the loss of a loved one. "Been there, done that." Ha ha ha. The older I get, the more losses I "move on"

"If you have a cat then you have probably had similar things happen to you" - for sure! Any new object on the floor commands our cat's attention. #MUST. SIT. On. It. Mark his territory with his

Thank you for all your insights and information! I'm forever in amazement at all that you accomplish!

You're welcome, @gertu! You are wise, brave, and strong. And yes, others use words to "minimize" one another. But there ARE good people--using words to lift up the fallen soul--and you're one

You're so very welcome! Mmy mission is to help "critics" and workshoppers, editors, and reviewers to take a kind and gentle approach. As you say: if the reader wants to give advice, it is best

Nora Ephron wrote her first novel, Heartburn, after discovering that her husband was cheating on her while she was pregnant with their second child. The main character at one point says she tells stories

When Art Pesters You by BETH HOFFMAN JUL 06, 2024 "Something is nagging at me to write," I heard from more than one attendee at my Writing Your Memoir workshop a few weekends ago. Some even commented

Oh, dear @gertu, YOU ARE A WRITER! Even if nobody else reads your words, or if other critique and judge your words until you never want to write again, know this: you write. You are a writer. I'm so sorry

Love it!!!! You make it seem easy but I know nothing is ever easy. My mom reupholstered a sofa - "Just take it apart, lay the pieces out on a piece of fabric, cut out the pieces, sew them, stuff them

Answer: Not Pleaching. The Normandy hedgerows were made up of linear mounds or walls of earth topped by a thick tangle of trees and brush. Most of the hedgerows dated back hundreds of years, some back

And so, now, I try to discern if #pleaching is how the hedge rows of Normandy came to be. This failure to identify and assess the impact of the hedgerows, and then develop tactics and training procedures

Sam, you've heard of "pleaching," but again, for other followers here who (like me!) haven't heard of it until today: Pleaching or plashing is a technique of interweaving living and dead branches

The Frequency Of Hemp, Linen and Sustainable Fabrics For Your Health While the study is not recognized completely by the scientific community, it did come up with some interesting (and not surprising to

Vibrational Frequency of Clothing Fabric, like everything else, has frequency. Over the years quality fabrics and clothing on store racks is, sorry to say, cheap, clingy and wearing it makes one feel and

Sam, Searching your wall for posts on textiles and their vibrational frequencies, I didn't find any. You know all this already, I'm sure, but for the sake of any followers who may see this: The vibrational

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