Garden progress at last
Another sunny day so I decided it was high time to get some serious planting done. Unfortunately, I had to do battle with a whole lot of tent caterpillars on Continue Reading →
Month: May 2011
Mike was right.
Renting a rototiller was totally the solution to my overwhelmed-by-the-garden blues. We booked it for the day but were done tilling four beds in well under an hour — really Continue Reading →
Arms like jelly
I finally went outside to deal with the garden today. It’s been such a dismal, wet spring, I felt like there was no point doing anything out there until it Continue Reading →
Safe Disposal of Old Makeup
I don’t wear a lot of makeup — to the point that I pretty much have to buy new mascara any time I want to wear it because the old Continue Reading →
Blasphemy vs. The Rapture
There’s a whole lot of hoopla this week over tomorrow’s pending Rapture as proclaimed by Rev. Harold Camping who, even though he is telling the world that the rapture is Continue Reading →
Sheepwalking
I’ve said it many times and I’ll say it again, “I don’t hate my job, I just resent being tethered to a job.” — it’s the schedule, really. Each time Continue Reading →
Circles
Following on the heels of my panic over search algorithms that exclude things from me, a friend was discussing how difficult it is to talk to people “outside our geek Continue Reading →
Search Exclusions
Many thanks to @linuxchiq on Twitter for sharing a post from Librarian By Day which is focused on a TED talk by Eli Pariser about the danger of “personalized web Continue Reading →
Mother’s Day
I’ve always found Mother’s Day to be an odd celebration: equal parts guilt and consumerism seasoned with sentimentality, ambivalence or remorse, depending on family history or situation. In North America, Continue Reading →
For The Expressive Generation
What Threadless designers got for Christmas in 1978… [Photo by Kate Bingaman-Burt, kateconsumption on Flickr]