The flower that continues to bloom: For your amusement

Monday, November 12

For your amusement

while I try to come up with some time to post.

Whatever else he may be, our friend Smokey cannot list grammar as one of his skills.

May he rest in peace.

Another thing I saw this weekend on a sign outside the green waste dump--you know, where you take your leaves and stuff and they convert it all into compost and sell it back to you in the spring?

"Grass, leaves, and branche's only."

How in the heck . . . ? You may imagine the double take I took.

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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.