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Steamroller - Gertrude Jekyll
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Steamroller - Gertrude Jekyll
For Gertrude Jekyll, English landscape architect, writer, and professional gardener, the garden was a paint palette and its blooms her paints. Throughout her life, this woman, with her love of nature and artistic talent, devoted herself to the design of hundreds of gardens, and pioneered the field of landscape architecture.
Woman On Top - Tovah Martin
“As brains count for more than brawn on the farm these days: Women can make a good living out of the soil,” proclaimed an October 1916 edition of the Australian Evening Sun. Despite the Evening Sun’s optimism about women and their role on the farm, it would be several decades before women would be recognized alongside men for having not only the “green thumbs,” but also the visionary minds for designing, gardening, and cultivating plants. Author and horticulturist Tovah Martin seems to be making up for lost time, or at least lost opportunities.
Back Page - Say It Without Flowers
I have yet to meet the man who would prefer a dozen roses to a dozen donuts. I’m sure these men exist, of course, but I have yet to meet even one of their number. On the flip side, there are more than a few practical women who would take the donuts over the roses, but they represent just a drop in the vast female sea. This isn’t the weird part, though.....
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How to Format Your Work for publishing on Amazon
Kindle is the new electronic reader being sold by Amazon.com. It uses wireless technology, similar to a PDA. The new Kindle format is similar to the format used by Amazon.com Shorts, except that it uses HTML instead of PDF. Tamara Wilhite has already sold some eBooks and Amazon.com Shorts and shares her insights on the process.
Home Sweet Home
“I’m living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.” – E.E. Cummings
Much has been written at Sitting Pretty about how people are spending their homeowners equity in the last the few years. Boats and home improvements have been adequately covered. Are you one of the few that still has home equity burning a hole in your pocket?
It Pays to Be Punctual - Tamara Wilhite
Everyone realizes that time can be money. Time at work correlates to one’s paycheck. This is especially true when someone else is charging us by the hour. However, we often do not correlate our own lost time into money. Procrastination, especially, can be costly. Here are a few examples.
Frugal in Flex-Time - Tamara Wilhite
One of the benefits of frugality is that it reduces your expenses – and, hence, your need to work long hours to earn the money for those expenses. Let us say you’ve cut out the fat and can now cut the hours at your job. Let us look at each scenario and matters to look at in each case.
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