Hello Steemians, It's been a while I have been here and before I forget I want to correctly introduce myself to the Steem platform, please forgive me for my first low effort post ;) My name is Chance,

My first hand-poured silver was a silver Heart. When I first saw this one, I instinctively and immediately got it, then had it gilded. Why my attraction to hearts? My first Mene 24K jewelry was a Mene

Hi! I love to watch celebrities perform on sesame street. For me when they perform in sesame street that means they passed the test for being amongst the coolest artists. In the old days there were Stevie

If you feel like a crackpot watch this, you'll feel better :-) Where does the term crackpot come from? Pot was once a slang term for the skull, and something cracked was obviously defective — a older

How does forgiveness come about?/Talking to your grudge. We all know the feeling of holding a grudge against someone. Though the taste of it may be sweet in the beginning, it has a defining bitter aftertaste.

My neighbor randomly invited me to her home. She made savories that she wanted me to share with her over tea. Her husband was away on a trip of some sort, I figured she was needing someone to talk to.

As I reported in my last Old Barn Project post, the exact locations of a few of my earlier Old Barn photos were not adequately documented, sadly, because of my hectic life situation at the time. This post

In 1968, the US Congress established the last Monday in May Memorial Day, a nationwide day of remembrance honoring the men and women who died while serving in the U.S. military in US history. May 29, 2019

Yesterday, I showed the beautiful EC8 coin, 2018 1 oz Silver Dominica Nature Isle Coin, received as a gift from @dfinney. @saffisara's comment on that article reminded me that many of us get the exposure

received a surprise package from a sweet and lovely person with a most charming smile.Yes, it is from none other than our steemsilvergold stacker, @dfinney!photo source doggie paperclip attached to the

Vintage "Happy Mother's Day" Silver Bars (These are NOT mine!) For stacker-mothers' viewing pleasure! Just a quick post to greet all mothers in the steemit community!I will see you again soon!

This past weekend, I had the pleasure of meeting @katrina-ariel in-person, my first real-life meeting of someone from the Steem blockchain! It took over a year-and-seven-months of being here to meet someone

The lovely Granddaddy Graybeard Tree (Chionanthus virginicus) is native to the southeastern US. I've never heard it called anything else, but in researching a bit about the tree for this article, I saw

This is an entry into the "Daily/Staple Food" contest being run by the PowerHouseCreatives community. Of course, food tastes better when it is served with pretty dishes! The bowl in the photo below is

This is an entry into another of @boyerobert's photo challenges The theme this week is “Food" For this entry, I took a photograph of a yummy sushi roll I was eating for lunch and did some creative editing

Not kidding: A few days ago, I found myself crying in my bed because I realised all of a sudden that I had been resenting and fighting something I actually really love: The dandelion. It brought up quite

Many times recently, I have heard people moaning about the absence of any projects to welcome new Steemians, help them, and thus boost user retention on the platform. It's a shame those folks don't know

I have written about these beautiful flowers previously, but there is news I wanted to share, so I am reprising some photos and information. These flowers had stopped blooming for a few years and I figured

Decades ago, I resided in western North Carolina, and lived only a short 15–20 minute drive from one of the most astounding national parks ever created in the US: the Blue Ridge Parkway. Construction began

In a series of 3: Identifictation 3 'Building something to hold on to through positive identification.' Welcome! Previously, in the previous articles 'Identification 1 and 2', ( and we talked about