HOW TO IMPROVE LAWN AND LANDSCAPE TO ENHANCE HOME CURB APPEAL   The first impression your lawn and landscape make when someone pulls up out front has a significant impact on your home’s value. Enhancing your property’s “curb appeal” can boost its price by up to 17 percent — and lawn and landscaping upgrades matter […]

Thursday Notes: #9 Special Sunday Edition of Thursday Notes! With Extra! Exclamation! Marks! At last! The audiobook version of The Queen and The Tower is live! This is a beautifully narrated book, and I’m so excited to share it with you all. In addition, I’ve asked ACX to send me some promotional codes, so if

Thursday Notes: #8 Listening I haven’t ever listened to audio books, much; I don’t have a commute; and when I work, I’m working with words, so I can’t have other words in my ears. But I know many of you do listen–to books, podcasts, radio shows–and so when I heard that authors can put their

Thursday Notes: #7 Breaking the Long Silence; or, Something of an Account of the Last Few Months Greetings loyal readers! As you probably know from the Book of Face, my life got very busy and distracting and intense and enjoyable and also very, very sad. So as not to bury the lede: Mom died on

Thursday Notes: #6 Return of the Notes Greetings from another Thursday! I missed last week because that was the day Mark and I started driving home from my mom’s. Mom is doing all right; she got signed up for hospice this week, which is a hard emotional passage for us all. But the hospice nurses

Thursday Notes: #5 The Shortest Note Yet I warned you the schedule might get wonky…well, here it is. Though it is technically still Thursday, at least where I am. Which is not at home; some of you may know that my mother has been battling bladder cancer for the last year-plus. She had chemo last

We will be removing all previous Healthy Diet Plans in the coming weeks. You will still be able to access all of the recipes online but please do save any related pages, shopping lists or emails if you’d like to keep them for your reference.  I hate fad diets but love the promise of an

You may be wondering, “Why does this even matter? I thought you guys host a site about headphones.” Well, you’re not wrong, but we also cover all things audio. And believe it or not, ear tips greatly affect audio quality.   Let’s get down to it; it’s payday and you’ve earned yourself a new pair

Thursday Notes: #2 First things first. Is that an azalea OR WHAT? I know I’ve talked about this else-web, but, part of the charm and delight of our first year in a new home is finding out what’s in the garden. Mark and I are both avid gardeners, and when we chose this house, we

Thursday Notes: #1 I water the orchids every Thursday. I carry them from their decorative pots and put them in the bathtub, and give them a nice drenching, and let them drain before I put them away. Sometimes I don’t get to it on Thursdays. Sometimes it’s Friday, or even the weekend, but I can’t