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What is your Garden Avatar? This is mine! Being ever at the zeitgeist, I just created her. I’m always happily laboring in…
Around this time of year, I like to take stock of the world around me ~ those things that in the past…
It was a good year for bibliophiles. There were so very many good books to thrill me, teach me, make me cry, surprise…
I had the extreme honor to host Elizabeth Brim, Blacksmith, for my recent Ladies Who Lunch Conversations. Elizabeth is an extraordinary…
It’s said that one of the reasons we all love dots so much is that dots are linked to the amygdala or…
The trend setters at Pantone announced its 2024 Color of the Year: Peach Fuzz as a “velvety gentle peach whose all-embracing spirit enriches…
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In the town so nice, they named it twice, it’s only fitting that there are no less than two Holiday shows at…
This is a touchy subject. Death almost always is… While we may intellectualize the unwelcome fact of it and recognize that it…
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