Lavender never survives the winter, for me. Echinacea - I have lots of it! Nature's bird feeder! Sadly, mine is no the true native version of coneflower. I did have some, but it died off, and the hybrid

Came back to this post, and today, I can see the photos. Beautiful! (Cue the song: How much is that doggie in the window?) Restaurants that manage to screw up a salad - oh man. Just astonishingly lame.

Is it normal To have as much talent as @owasco? Love these! Is it normal to type "brian" washing or was she brain washed by Brian? Is it normal to doubt every doctor but trust a willow tree?

Time to peruse old posts: Because I'm not taking time to WRITE any. I was searching for new poems by @owasco but none so far - well, hope springs eternal! Ledum 200cc Thanks for the tip! Lactose and sucralose

Verklempt - love that word. LOVE the idea of Niko meeting Julie in heaven. :) April is the cruelest month, the poet said. Today is April 1, so I was hunting for your springtime poems and this one is the

AI rewrote my story in less than one second. It's shocking, how fast AI operates. "Cleverly banal" - I like that. Clearer, "LessWork" for the reader (I don't want the reader to be

I love your poem! It is definitely not banal. And I am eager to read this novel.

No hyperlink this time: (Again, sorry for the confusion, and THANK YOU for the book recommendation!)

Oops, sorry, no - I had hoped the quote-indent would help! And they hyperlink. My degree in English teaching did not automatically confer on me CLARITY in my writing. Constant vigilance and effort must

Oh, this is fun, ADDICTING fun, and enlightening, and encouraging. I write well - I have a voice! My writing needs "tightening" but not "fixing." Is flattery a tool of AI to get us

ChatGPT, it seems to me, is stripping away more details than it needs to. As if "generic" is the goal. That said, ok, yes, I admit it: "AI" is improving my fiction. 30-March-2-26, from

Today, 30-March-2026, replying to a completely different thread, you happened to mention "naming" and this novel you finished reading only last night. Gotta love #synchronicity!! The Names by

Another rewrite from ChatGPT, 30-March-2026, and some kind words about my "voice," but, but, in everything I've subbed to an AI for a rewrite, my "voice" (raw emotion) gets stripped

Ok, I've gone to the Dark Side. I've asked AI how this freewrite could be rewritten as a short story. You’ve got a wonderful core here—what’s missing isn’t content, it’s control of tension. Right now it

I save passwords in Chrome - then get told my password is incorrect. When I have never knowingly changed it. It happened with our banking and other accounts. It's been happening for as long as I've had

Wow, when did crypto plummet? Last time I'd checked, I had more $2,000 in the wallet. Today: The estimated value is based on an average value of Hive in US dollars. $728.52 What the heck!

It was.... it comes and goes... I need to come back more often to Hive! I'm always too late to upote your posts. Still haven't figured out how Google Chrome, where my passwords were stored, somehow changed

I am, and will steadfastly remain, an anachronism. Yesssss!! Me too. "I come from the 1900s," as Nate Bargatzi tells his audience. I've been dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st C cyber

Old tech at Goodwill - yes! We donate old computers and other gadgets. SOMEONE WANTS THIS old tech. Tim still has the first TI calculator his parents bought in 1972. Now we need to go find out if it still

Fascinating! Water likes to dance and play on its way to us. No wonder our cat demands MOVING water, not water sitting in a bowl. Thank you Sam for documenting (with photos!) your experiments and the amazing