There’s a better way to manage pests than what has become the marketed and mostly careless chemical norm over recent decades. Natural remedies abound. Last year, I hung up “fake wasp nests” to control the wasp infestation in our home and they worked like a dream.
After the sewer flooded the basement, I couldn’t bring myself to go down there, which meant that Michael had to lug the laundry up and down the two flights of stairs. But even just folding and wearing the clothes wigged me out, so I petitioned for a new laundry room on the second floor in one of the spare bedrooms.
No one can tell you what it’s like to release your first book. You can dream about it and conjure up what you think will happen, but the reality is quite different. It’s like Christmas Day after months of anticipation – and then it’s over in what seems like a moment.
There’s something about a green lawn. It has an alluring, sort of hypnotic quality about it. Transfixed by its color, texture and the way the light bounces off each blade, we humans can gaze at it for hours on end.
It was a cold, dry January day when I walked down the two flights of stairs to the basement to put a load of laundry in, a trek that was beginning to take its toll. I heard rushing water first, and then looked down to see that the basement was flooded with a good six-inches of brown water.
Do young adults leave their homes and go out into the world knowing that bleach mixed with ammonia or vinegar can cause brain damage and even death? Probably not. I didn’t know until a friend informed me when I was in my late 20s. At that point,
