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New Decade, New Adventures!

If You Can’t Beat ’em, Join ’em!

by | May 29, 2020 | Nature & My Gardens | 2 Comments

My Furred and Feathered Friends My friend Michael P. is at war with a squirrel he's named the Dark Lord SquirrelRon. I am somewhat more amused by my own garden squirrels; after all, being an amateur gardener, I view their thieving mischief as high compliments. I...
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How I Met The Spyders

by | May 28, 2020 | Fiction, Writing | 7 Comments

I’m Apeksha Rao, a YA author from India, and I’m here to talk to you about my debut novel, Along Came A Spyder.
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Mother, Touchstone, Friend

by | May 10, 2020 | Writing | 3 Comments

We mothers – we are merely rudders, guiding our children’s ships through the storms and over the turbulent seas of life – we guide them as steadily and as best we can, but we are not the only influence that determines the outcome of the journey… Who am I today? I am a...
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The Inconstant Blogger

by | May 4, 2020 | No-Niche Posts, Writing | 8 Comments

It is a poorly-kept secret that I have been writing "elsewhere" and not on this blog, the last couple of weeks.  My friend Rasheed Hooda, who once declared me Queen of the No-Niche Bloggers, likes to do to me what I so blithely do to others. Like the Pied Piper, but...
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How to Use Flipboard: Curated Content & Feed Reader

by | April 23, 2020 | Technical & How-To | 2 Comments

Flipboard is a place to discover and share content you enjoy. Here’s how to use it.
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Notifications? Really?

by | April 22, 2020 | Technical & How-To | 8 Comments

I finally started using Microsoft's Snip & Sketch utility - the coming replacement for the old Snipping Tool in Windows. You can open it from the Start menu or Windows Logo Key + Shift +S. If you don't have it already, download it from the Microsoft Store. It's...
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Global

Global

by | Apr 10, 2020

If there is one good thing to come out of a global crisis like SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the disease now known as "COVID-19," it is that we...

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Emergent

Emergent

by | Apr 9, 2020

I hadn’t thought about cotyledons since Botany class, when I was 15 or so. I probably wouldn’t have thought of the word “cotyledon” at all, unless there was a Lima bean attached, growing in a medium of tap water and cheap paper towels. Here are some fun things to do, regardless of your age. Homeschoolers, you’re welcome.

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Dire Dullness

Dire Dullness

by | Apr 8, 2020

We meet with stark denial The unspeakable unknown. A dire dullness creeps, Settles, swaths in sleep A dawning, drowning Dismal truth. Wild-eyed the...

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