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I had this great post on exfoliant a mostly prepared for today, then I started researching clays and before I knew it…it was lunch time! So look for that post later this week with far more information than I had expected! As an aside, it might be a white Christmas around here! Hope you have...
Did you really think it would be? For my 11th birthday I was given a hard copy version of the Book of Lists 3 in which it was mentioned that the end of the world could happen on December 21, 2012, my 43rd birthday. “Yeah, whatever. I’ll be dead by then.” (I was a nihilistic...
Although I’ve finished A Song of Ice and Fire for now (aka Game of Thrones), I’m still in love with Hodor. There is a particularly awesome passage in A Storm of Swords that made me fall for this gentle giant. A thunderstorm has made Hodor particularly upset. He is running about yelling, “Hodor! Hodor! Hodor!”...
I’ve tried really hard to create a safe space where people can feel comfortable to ask questions and share their thoughts, but that was put in jeopardy recently. Because I want everyone to feel welcome, I have decided to institute a few rules that I will ask you to follow when commenting. 1. Completely anonymous...
As I try to figure out how to respond to the outpouring of kindness I’ve seen here in the last week, and as I patiently wait for the arrival of Raymond’s new computer – we’ve been sharing for about a month now, which means my posts are mainly written on my tiny iPhone screen –...