The flower that continues to bloom: Found

Daltonboy, jr.: Hey, look! [holds up staple remover, clamping its little jaws] I found this staple vampire in my room.

Me: Um. That would have come in real handy yesterday, when I had to pick out sixty staples with my fingernails [my really long fingernails, that I can't cut because I have no clippers].

DBJ: Heh, heh.

Me: So. Did you read my blog, or what?

DBJ: Huh?

Me: I just blogged about all this lost stuff, and that was one of the things.

DBJ: Oh. Well, now you'll have something else to blog about. Hee, hee.

Yeah, blog this, kid.

What's the blog title about?

In 2010 I came across a series of vintage booklets entitled "Amy Vanderbilt Success Program for Women" (copyright 1965) at a thrift store. I didn't look inside any of them: the titles and cover art were funny enough that I had to have them. And it didn't hurt that I got four booklets for 25 cents. My favorite was "How to be a more interesting woman." Who could pass that up?

A few days later I started to look through the book for a laugh, and found myself almost immediately absorbed by the author's wisdom and wit. She made some good points . . . she made a lot of good points. This was something I could use, for who doesn't want to be more interesting? And here in my hands was a surprisingly progressive manual on how to do it.

So, in my newfound quest to be more interesting, I thought I'd use this forum to try things out and reflect on my efforts. In short, I hope to become the kind of person that continues to flower and grow.

The flower that continues to bloom

Saturday, October 8

Found

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