pink tulips

#bloomscrolling

Tales of Hideous House-Guests We appear to be on a roll when it comes to stories of drugging bad guests (which are really stories about how hard it can be to have people visit you overseas). Of course, I have no personal storie…

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watercolor flowers

#watercolors #painting reves d’aquarelle paints

The Importance of Trying New Hobbies and Jobs (and Failing) Learning new stuff is hard. And humiliating and it can sap your will to live. Did I ever tell you, my dear, about my friend who was marrying a man who played tennis? And she insisted that I take a …

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spray of pink flowers

#watercolors #painting reves d’aquarelle paints

small potted palm

#bloomscrolling #gardens🪴🌱🪷

small watercolor of spray of pink flowers

#watercolors #painting reves d’aquarelle paints

Maine garden in summer

#bloomscrolling Maine garden

#edge #BlueSkyArtShow #Photography #Travels #Nature #landscape

painting of koi - birds - dandelion and patterns

#painting Sue Zipkin

Raise the Red Lantern: or What to Do When Women Fight at Work Raise the Red Lantern is an instructional horror film (you will notice that the villain’s face is never seen!). At the beginning of the movie, you think that the women are all ghastly, then you gra…

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Ashtaran Souq – The Tale of Yusef the Thief and Mubarak the Cook Darling, politics are horrible at the moment. Stick to fairy tale and here is one of my favorites: Mubarak was a cook who loved to cook, but he was not careful. He mixed up the spoons, didn’t clean…

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pink and white carnations

#bloomscrolling

Gstaad Guy, Cyrus Veyssi and the Importance of Supporting les Meneurs d’Etiquette A friend asked me my opinion of “Gstaad Guy,” an influencer who does mock etiquette videos. Tout simplement je l’adore. But, of course, all true etiquette mavens adore all other t…

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desert highlands under cloudy skies

#photogrsphy #travel Arabian Peninsula

prairie in colorado - lines of muted colors

#photography #travel prairie colors in colorado

#bloomscrolling #joy daffodils

Helping a Friend Through Grief: Tea, Sympathy, Offering to Run Errands and Staying Silent A friend’s father recently passed away and as I sat down to write a condolence card, I thought “What would have helped me when I was in grief?” The answer is, of course, nothing – there…

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How and Why to Mentor People at Work: The Lessons of Lasso and Henry Higgins I heard a colleague laughing about a trainee who shook from fear while making a presentation. Sigh. That’s not a problematic trainee, that a problematic mentor. A mentee who is given a task they ar…

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red tulips in overgrown garden

#bloomscrolling tulips finally showing up

dry landscape with clouds above and sun rising

#Stunday #photography #landscape #EastCoastKin Arabian Peninsula

daffodils and one tulip

#BlueSkyArtShow #new #photography 🪴🌷

daffodils in my garden

#bloomscrolling #joy

Quality TV: The Proletariats’ Revenge (or Watch the Executives Suffer) Darling, on difficult days I imagine episodes from my favorite tv show which has not yet been produced: The Proletariats’ Revenge: or Watch the Executives Suffer. The producers promise free publici…

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“You write books? For a living? Are they published?”

“No. I generally just sit on top of salt bins in town centres and bark paragraphs from them at strangers. If someone particularly enjoys a metaphor or adjective they sometimes throw me a coin or two. You’d be surprised at the way it mounts up.”

#bloomscrolling #joy

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snow in foreground, mountains in background with blue sky, Pyrenees, France

#travel #photography Pyrenees, France

A Travel Memory – Jordan, 25 years ago Jordan was all about expectations and contrasts for me, not to mention romantic disillusionment, embarrassment and the beginning of understanding my ‘see it sideways’ policy. When I was on a short …

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