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  • I had an odd experience. I was watching an online speech on marketing. First I thought, "That guy isn't as good a speaker as I am!"I am like this. If I go to a restaurant, I want the food to be better than what I can coo…

  • I read recently -- and I believe it -- that being consistent is key to stylishness. If you normally wear makeup, then on a day that you don't, your face has a bare, medieval look unlike the face people usually see. If yo…

  • There were a lot of very interesting responses on the subject of grooming, in the comments and in emails. I was interested in your personal experiences of this matter. There was a suggestion that my failure to, as it wer…

  • So I was heading to the gym, in black yoga pants and a big shapeless T-shirt given me for donating blood, with the straggly bits of my past-due haircut scraped back in a two-inch semblance of a pony tail and the bits th…

  • By the time I got down to the Farmers Market yesterday, it was already in the 90s. I bought half a peck of peaches first, and trundled around the square carrying them, adding bitter melon, cucumber, and green beans. The …

  • Week seven of the Summer Reading Challenge, and my book #2 for the week is My Antonia, a story about life on the prairies in the 19th century. My Antonia is so beautifully written that you have to go back and re-read sen…

  • The book I am reading right now, Killer Hair, is a snappy mystery novel with a plucky girl detective. I always like those, don't you? I brought Trixie Belden books into the store, and women often stop when they see them …

  • Yesterday a woman came into the store to buy equipment for her meth lab. Meth labs are, I believe, the main source of crime in the area where I live. I tried to check this belief by googling, but was offered "Find [my st…

  • I woke up quite suddenly at 3:30 this morning worrying about #2 daughter's Independence Day weekend. #1 daughter is all by herself on the other side of the country while her husband is on a submarine, but I have given up…

  • The Summer Reading Challenge continues. I have finished the Yellow Rose mysteries (or, at least, all the ones Booksfree sent me), and am moving on to Jane Austen in Boca. Meanwhile, #2 son is reading -- or is supposed t…

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