Category Archives: Personal Doings

In my previous post, I exhorted everyone to think before acting. Well, it turns out that sometimes I need a reminder to follow my own advice. But what is one to do when the pumpkin on your second-story balcony has gone all rancid and nasty from age and rain-water? Clearly, that plastic shopping bag isn’t […]

I’ve been embarking upon a variety of “do-it-yourself” projects with varying degrees of success. Making bread: Success. Making cheese: Failure. Mending the lining to my fleece-lined jeans (an excellent idea, BTW): Sucess, for now. What I’m driving at is this: try things.  It doesn’t matter if other people say you’re weird or uncool.  Those people […]