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A couple of weeks ago I read this post by Aidan over at Ivy League Insecurities. I will wait while you click on over there and read her fabulous post. No, really. I'll go read a blog or listen to some kick-ass music while I wait.

While the post struck me as sweet, Aidan speaking kindly of Nic over at My Bottle's Up, what really struck a chord was this:

"But something in me has an urge to reach out beyond the little snow globe that is my existence. And learn. About others. About different places – geographical and metaphysical. About different people. People with different pasts and different presents. With different experiences and emotions and struggles."

Aidan is much more poetic than I, when it comes to speaking of the WHY? of blogging. For me, I have always said it's for me, my journey, an outlet, a bouncing-off place, a path through my heart & mind that I want to share. It is all of these things, for me.

I have listened to others wax on about how we blog for others, for attention, for notoriety, for affirmation, for friendship. And all of these may well be true.

I have listened to others discuss the need to be honest on our blogs, share every teeny detail with those who are reading, leave no stone unturned, we owe it to our readers.

I have listened to others discuss the necessity in being anonymous, keeping safety at the forefront of the entire endeavor, separating the blog persona and the real person.

I struggle with all of this, because as is par for me, I agree with bits and pieces of all of it. I have never been black and white; I have always made my home in that lovely gray area that scares many, including my loved ones.

I blog for me.
I blog to get it out, to see it in print, to prove to myself that my feelings are accurate, real, and justified.
I blog for support, for a shared sense of SHARING, for new friendships.
I blog to organize my thoughts, my dreams, my emotions, my past, and get a grasp on my future.
While I give you tattered threads of my heart, share dreams that haunt me, I also keep my distance. I am not completely honest with my readers about all of me, all the time. Not that I lie, but I withhold things, things that I'm not quite ready to admit to myself, and certainly not to my readers.
And each time I let fear rule my hands as I type up another post, I think "Maybe I should take a break. Maybe I shouldn't share all of this. Maybe no one gives a shit about it. Maybe I shouldn't give a shit about any of it."
But I hit publish anyway, shaking, fearful that I will disappoint someone, shame someone, throw someone for a loop, push someone away. I am such a people-pleaser, even those people that I have never laid eyes on, even those lurkers, even those who don't deserve the pleasure of my pleasing.
And then I read a post like Aidan's, so simple and profound. And I think "Yes, YES, I have got it right. See it's right there-she thinks like I do. This must be right." And I feel a sense of freedom, of companionship, of pride. I feel as though I have a true friend in Aidan, although we have never gone shopping together, nor have we gone out drinking and dancing until 2am. Nor have we even emailed back and forth. But I read her post, and I realize that we are all doing this shit for the same reasons, and they are all true and just and beautiful.

Alan said...

Trust me...you DO have it right, my dear friend. Although I'm not as devoted to blogging as some, I find it to be an excellent outlet to getting my thoughts out of my head. You are one of my dearest blogger friends and through this outlet we have met and become friends. Without blogging, that would have never have happened.

The words your friend writes are definitely potent. And they are truth!

Aidan Donnelley Rowley said...

Here I am. At the starting gates of yet another day. Another point in the cycle. A personal cycle. A shared cycle. Life.

I am at Starbucks which you know is my stomping grounds. I have the computer flipped open. I'm sipping coffee. Today, there are grains floating in my coffee. Which strikes me as nothing short of symbolic because the day, though young, doesn't feel smooth today. It feels a shred rough. A bit grainy.

I sit here. Full of questions and ideas. Paralyzed by them. Today, things feel heavy. Heavy in a good, poetic way. Today is one of those days where I wonder why I am blogging. (I wonder this a lot.) Today is a day where I don't have a blog post formed in my head and waiting to spill.

Today, I am pulled in many directions. I want to write my next novel which is one-third done and beckoning me from the back burner. Today, I want to knock out the remaining items for my book. Today, I want to frolic with my girls, to play, to giggle, to digest my day as a mom.

And yet. Instead of doing these things, I came here. To stop by. To see what you are thinking. And I am surprised with a lovely post in which you reference a post I wrote a little while back that affected me deeply. Please know that this post does too. It reminds me of why. It reminds me that the connections I am forging are very much real even if they are knitted from the ether of the internet.

Thank you. One day, we will have to go shopping and stay out until 2am dancing. Deal?

My Bottle's Up! said...

yes, in aidan you have found a fantastic friend. and YOU my sweet are a gifted writer with your own voice.

and i hear you, my sweet. i hear you and i love you.

Kristie said...

I am so glad you blog. Do it for whatever reasons you need to do it. I love it no matter what.

Girl, I could have written this post.

I have to remember that I blog for me. I started it as an online journal... but yes, the comments drive you to blog one way or the other or to leave stuff out. Yep, I'm guilty of it too.

Do it for your reasons. Just like in real life... some will like it and others won't. They can just go read elsewhere.

kanishk said...

in aidan you have found a fantastic friend. and YOU my sweet are a gifted writer with your own voice.
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Chibi Jeebs said...

"But I read her post, and I realize that we are all doing this shit for the same reasons, and they are all true and just and beautiful."

Hear freaking hear.

P.S. Thinking about you. *squishy hugs*

Sarah said...

I HEART this POST! Right on.

It is so scary to put yourself out there, for so many reasons...but it's also cathartic.

And having a bloggy friend like you gives me courage to post questionable things, throwing caution to the wind of judgment.

To them I say, Two tears in a bucket...fuck it.

I am so glad I found you. I cannot believe how alike we are.

I am surrounded by grey.

It's the Pisces way, Baby.

pamela said...

I love this post! You said it so perfectly. Many people thing we blog for attention and thats just dumb and ingnorant. They are just jealous they dont blog. Writing is not for everyone but it sure is for YOU!

Anonymous said...

Both your's and Aidan's posts are great and oh so true.

I love the way blogging can bring complete strangers together. I love the life experience that others offer me, it gives me a new dimension on my thoughts and feelings.

Lindsey said...

I too was inspired by Aidan's post - here are my thoughts and I am glad to ahve read yours!


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Mother’s Day at the First Christian Church, 1973

The First Christian Church of Corpus Christi, Texas decided to honor the oldest and youngest mothers in the congregation on Mother’s Day, 1973.  What a wonderful contrast between the outfits of the very old and still quite young.  We can … Continue reading

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Portrait of a Woman with Butterfly

In honor of Black History Month, I’ve been searching for collections of photographs of African Americans that might include older women.  One rich source I discovered is the private collection of Mike Cochran, given to the Portal of Texas History.  … Continue reading

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Home Sewing, 1955

These days many of us who sew have entire rooms dedicated to the process.  (In my house, I lay claim on parts of many rooms—just ask my husband his opinion of my expanding sewing empire).  But here we see that … Continue reading

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Twins, 1984

The artist and photographer Roz Leibowitz found a treasure trove of photos on ebay documenting the lives of twin sisters from the 1930s to the 1990s.  I found the story of the collection in American Photo Magazine and then discovered … Continue reading

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Older Women and Defense Work during World War Two

For the month of October, I had access to an online version of Women’s Wear Daily—what a treasure trove!  My first priority was to trace the history of half sizes, but my passion for discovering the history of older women … Continue reading

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At the Breakers Bath House, ca. 1906

This photo postcard has a 1900s look about it, but historical events allow me to date it more precisely.  According to printed information on the back, it was taken at a photo studio at the Breakers Bath House in Galveston, … Continue reading

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Myrtle Bell Moten and Friends, 1929

I didn’t want to let black history month slip by without a post.  These women aren’t old, but I liked their outfits so much I wanted to include them.  The snapshot comes from the collection of the Moten family, prosperous … Continue reading

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Irene Salce de Urbina, 1986

Born in Mexico in 1908, Irene Salce de Urbina moved to Texas in the 1940s with her husband and seven children. She became a US citizen in 1963. Her husband, a minister in the Mexican Baptist Church, died in 1967. … Continue reading

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“Fifth Avenue Likes New Look, but Main Street Does Not”

The new clothing style that emerged after World War Two created an excitement and furor that are hard to imagine today. The New Look symbolized a lot of things—the end to post war austerity, a more feminine silhouette, and the … Continue reading

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Vapor Cigarette – The Lowdown

Vapor Cigarette – The Lowdown

An electric cigarette is simply an electronic device which simulates the specific cigarette smoking process. It basically consists of a tank, an atomizer, and a heater. Rather than smoke, the vender inhales vapor instead. Therefore, with an electronic cigarette, the consumer is frequently referred to as “vaping.”

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The vapor produced by an electronic cigarette has shown to possess some similar characteristics to smoke for the reason that it contains more skin tightening and than what you will expect from smoking tobacco. But, it also contains a variety of other chemicals as well. Among they are propylene glycol, and liquid nicotine. The quantity of nicotine in a typical electronic cigarette product varies from one to another.

You can find two primary benefits of using a vapor alternative to smoking cigarettes. The first is obvious. You get to eliminate the unhealthy effects of smoking without having to cope with all of those pesky unwanted effects. Included in these are gum disease, cancer, coronary attack, and stroke. A vapor alternative delivers all of these without any of these.

The next benefit is less obvious. By not dealing with the unhealthy ramifications of smoking, it is possible to save yourself money. When you consider how much cash it costs to go through treatment for one of these diseases, you will see just how much a vapor alternative can help you save. Instead of extra cash for pills and visits to your physician, you simply make full use of an electronic cigarette. That’s it.

While an electronic cigarette might seem to be very similar to a “real” cigarette, it is very important recognize that it operates differently. To be Smok Novo 2 able to work, it must be completely temperature regulated. In ways, it is more like a vaporizer than a cigarette. It takes the tar and chemicals out from the air while still heating it up enough to create the vapor which people inhale to obtain a quick hit of nicotine.

One of the most attractive features about the electronic cigarettes which are available today may be the design of the button. You essentially have two buttons. The first button is designed to be utilized to start the device. Once started, you simply have a drag and it’ll begin heating up the vapor to create the actual vapors which you breathe. The second button can be used to turn off the machine so that you don’t inhale the vapor which could potentially harm you.

The reason why electronic cigarette works in this manner is because you can keep it on a desktop as well as on your lap. Because of this you can’t be right there by yourself smoking. Not only is it inconvenient but it is also potentially dangerous. Smoking is really a potential killer, in the end.

An electric cigarette works just as well as any other kind of cigarette. The main difference is the amount of time you should actually smoke it. The common electronic cigarette will last between one and five hours. There is absolutely no ash to clean up, no need to worry about filters or papers, and you also don’t have to cope with dealing with smokey fingers. All you have to do to enjoy your electronic cigarette is to press a button. While this may not seem like much, this is really a great benefit over needing to actually light up a normal cigarette.

The electronic cigarette has no need for one to light it, meaning that you won’t have to deal with the mess of lighter fluid and you can stay away from the chance of electrical fires. Many people who are not good making use of their lights will see the electronic cigarette convenient enough to keep around. If you aren’t a fan of cigarettes, then this is a wonderful product that you should consider. Many people have discovered that they don’t get the same effect from an electric cigarette as they do from a traditional cigarette. Simply because the electronic cigarette doesn’t produce any smoke, so you won’t experience the pang of smoke that you get from a traditional cigarette.

Once you think about it, having less smoke produced by an electric cigarette is probably the biggest reasons that it works so well. You can use it in your vehicle without fear of exhaust emissions. You don’t have to be worried about a flame burning your hand or turning the car on. Many of these things imply that the vapor that an electronic cigarette produces is safer compared to the liquid nicotine within traditional cigarettes.

While an electric cigarette may seem just like a new idea, the fact is that it has been around for a long time. Many people work with a vapor cigarette frequently, especially when they first start smoking. Once you try the vapor cigarette for the very first time, you will see the huge benefits for yourself. There are a lot of benefits to trying out a vapor cigarette, especially if you have never tried them before.


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How To WORK WITH A Vaping Mod TO BOOST Your E-Cig Experience!

A vapors mod is a device that allows you to add vaporizer flavors to your personal vaporizer. Vaporizers are electronic cigarettes that create a concentrated and flavorful vapor that can be inhaled to help you stop smoking. There are dozens of flavors that you can choose from, but they are often only offered in the traditional two flavors or three flavors. If you love your vaporizers, it really is quite frustrating once you can’t make the flavors you like due to the restriction of several particular flavors. Vaping mods will be the solution to this issue for those who enjoy mixing their own flavors with their Vaporizer.

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When I was in college, I had a roommate who come to my room to smoke pot and eat cookies. Because he was also a “bad weedhead”, he made a spot to come quickly to my room every evening and smoke pot after his meal, that i found very disgusting. My first “Vaporizer Mod” was a tasteless sugar cookie mod, but I’ve since discovered that there are a plethora of different mods available. I’ve even discovered some personal Vaporizers that may add flavors of your own to the vaporizer.

These Electric Tobacconist mods are easy to install, plus they are removable so that you can mix and match different flavors together with your Vaporizer. These mods also have the added benefit of having the ability to remove the bowl or coil for cleaning. The flavors can also be a mixture of different Vapes such as fruit flavors and tobacco flavors.

It is extremely common to hear people say that personal vaporizers are excellent for helping to kick the habit, but if you ask me, I would rather cut costs and prepare my own herbal colon cleansing drinks, teas, or potions in the home. I enjoy tinkering with different flavors, and I’m sure you do to. Fruit and tobacco flavors are great because they acquire the sugars from the food, and also since they taste really good. There is nothing better than a delicious plate of sugar cookies or perhaps a delicious warm chocolate ice cream dessert. They’ll not only satisfy your palate, but may also fill your system with pleasant and soothing flavors.

Some individuals prefer flowery flavors, while some may want something that isn’t too sweet. Fruit and spice Vaporizers is popular because of this type of preference. These vaporizers can help give your vaporizer a nice kick and will help you to get through your day with more ease.

Also you can use these flavors in the morning, or any time that you want to freshen up. They’ll also give you a nice natural boost of energy to begin your day. There are so many different options for these vaporizers, you will most likely never go out of flavors to try. Many people even recommend adding some to coffee or tea! These Vaporizers work great and are gaining in popularity every day.

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Coton Hill Allotments – Open…its official!

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I attended the official opening event on Saturday 21st April.  Thankfully the showery weather held off, just long enough for speeches of thanks and congratulations from Simon Howard, Lady Berwick and Cllr Andrew Bannerman.  The sun shone, and there was a tangible feeling of celebration of all the hard work, and relief at getting this far.

Most of the plots are now well developed in terms of fencing, sheds and other infrastructure, and plants are flourishing.

I left just as the hail showers started up again.

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    Congratulations! Its great seeing new plots open up! Let me know how you’re getting on with it all!

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So Emotional

I still can’t wrap my head around the fact that Whitney Houston is gone. Every time I turn on the television and see the news, I can’t help but think it isn’t real. I’m stunned.

One of the first songs I remember falling in love with is “So Emotional.” Whenever one of my good friends and I heard this song come on the radio while hanging out at her grandmother’s pool on a hot afternoon, we immediately began screaming out the song with our squeaky little voices trying to compete with Whitney’s. No one can compete with her. Music won’t be the same without her.

The poem I’ve selected for this week is in tribute to Whitney: “The Role of Elegy” by Mary Jo Bang.

May her soul rest in peace and her family and loved ones find healing and peace in their hearts after their tragic loss.

What memories does Whitney Houston evoke for you? What was your favorite song of hers?

Some other links I thought I’d share:

An inspiring article on working toward success by Dan Blank: “Being a Success, Without Being a Bestseller”

Many of us can relate with this question: “Can there be a day to celebrate failure?”Read an excerpt from Paige Taggart’s poem “Get Your Slip On” via The The Poetry

Are you as crazy about Pinterest? (It has become a bad, bad habit for me!) Check out these boards for book-lovers! And if you have any others you follow and would like to share, please let me know!

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  1. My favorite Whitney movie. Thanks for posting this clip. Takes me back to when I first saw this movie and 'exhaling' became a code word for our group of friends when we thought we met 'the one.' Great memories.

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Jesus trees, Lent and Christian Easter activities for children

This Easter we are continuing to build family traditions as we focus on the biblical events that are the foundations of the Easter celebration. Here are some of the new activities we are trying out for Easter this year. The ones we like will become yearly traditions, the others we’ll have fun doing just this time. We haven’t actually made any of these yet so they are untried recommendations, however they look like fun and we’ll take the punt that they are worth the time and effort.

We have already missed the start of lent and with our latest baby due any time now we will not be attempting the 40 day count down, but this Jesus tree activity we’ll save for next year. Similar to the Jesse tree that we made for Christmas, a Jesus tree uses picture or object symbols to represent the major biblical stories culminating in the death and resurrection of Jesus at Easter. My plan for this is to collect 2 large branches and fasten them together to make a natural looking cross. We will then read the bible verses that go with each symbol, colour them in and add them to the cross over the 40 days of Lent. Free printable symbols are available at this blog, with a black and white and colour version as well.

In place of the Jesus tree count down we will use our resurrection eggs to count down the 12 days before Easer. (This year our resurrection eggs contain bible readings that retell the main events of Easter plus little symbols for each part that come from this blog.) I plan to hide one each day for the children to find and read during circle time.

These Easter story pecan cookies have an amazing amount of symbolism woven through the recipe. As each ingredient is added to the biscuits, a snippet of the Easter story is read that relates to that ingredient and even the way it is mixed or prepared has symbolism. The cookies are placed into the oven tomb are hollow when the tomb is re-opened. I can’t wait to do this one.

These resurrection rolls (scroll down at the link to find them) are also very symbolic, with the Easter story attached to the method of preparing and the ingredients used. Rather than buy a prepared dough that we probably can’t get in Australia anyway, I’ll just mix up a basic sweet dough in the bread maker and use that. Even sheets of prepared pastry would work.

We will use these symbols of Jesus to decorate Easter crosses by cutting out just the pictures and make cute cracked egg Easter cards. This article with general information about Lent was helpful as I really didn’t have much of an idea what Lent was all about and we’ll make these simple palm branches for Palm Sunday.

The legend of the pretzel was another great find this year. I had no idea that there was symbolism attached to pretzels or that they were traditionally an Easter food. We will attempt the paper pretzel pattern (although I made one myself and found it easier to do it by trial and error as I had no idea whatsoever how to follow the instructions they gave!) I think the children will have much more fun making real dough pretzels and topping them with a variety of flavours.

Another paper craft was this paper plate tomb and angel and a bunch of Easter lapbook activities from a variety of sites:

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We’ve all heard write-ups on serious problems of things people do “in their sleep” while under the influence of prescription sleeping aids. Things like demolishing the neighbor’s car and smearing their faces with chocolate pudding. Others engage in sleep walking and sleep driving while under the influence of sleeping tablets.

If you’re a traditional gal it’s always very romantic to include Pachabel’s Canon when mom and the Bridal Party are entering, then Wagner’s perennial Entrance Music, and Mendelsshon’s rousing fanfare whenever you walk inside Bach flower tips tours .

If scriptures are lessen course then, to me, beauty is the appetizer. Since beauty will be the eye of the beholder, my idea of beauty become entirely more advanced than yours. A little extra cash just okay – that’s fantastic because there is so much beauty to behold. Beauty comes to us through each within the senses so we’re continuously presented by using in some form, after we are awake and aware enough to note.

Fear set in the the surface of the involving negative emotional vibrations causing illness in mankind. Where does entire body fear, at this point inundating our body come from the? From the materialistic world we have a home in.

When treating temper tantrums with Bach Flower Therapy, the most specific remedy or remedies should be selected in line with the child’s individual needs. To enable Bach Flower Therapy end up being effective, it should be continued to secure a period of four to six weeks or even months for the way deep the imbalance can be. The recommended dosage for a Bach Flower Therapy duration of treatment comes from drops taken under the tongue 4 times therapist tours a day away from meals.

2) Don’t start a conflict or start communicating with them like “what does that mean?” because the stranger noesn’t need the answers and even when he did they would be different answers if he wasn’t frustrated.

These are just few for the flowers using them in bach flowers Flower Remedies and these are totally as well as produce no bad side effects. There is no risk of overdosing and will not deliver ill effects. Plus, it can be taken by everyone from babies to like people population.

Two very important points to start with. One: since I am not saying a doctor, nor should i belong to your AMA, then by their arbitrary law it is against the law to discuss curing – healing. The clinic doesn’t heal. It teaches you to heal yourself.

If thérapie enfant gigone need a little help, consider melatonin – you could easily get it in the health grocery. Or, try Bach Flower Essences. Because Bach Flowers work by rebalancing your energies, it will take a full week for results to kick in, but that is not forever the situation. I gave a friend a bottle of pre-blended flower essences from Feel Bach and he called me the next day by way of thanking me for his first full evening of sleep in months.


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Penguins Can’t Fly

Even though this is not improvised. I thought I would post it here since I showed the pencil test here. I actually finished it last fall.

I plan to put this exercise of spontaneous animation into play. I’ve not really focused on it yet, but it’s something I’ve wanted to do.

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Anita is a qualified CELTA English teacher and runs art labs in English for children from 3 years and up. She has experience in providing tailor-made workshops for special events. As well as this, together with fellow artist Linda Acunto, she runs a monthly programme of art labs called Bimbi ai Fori at Breccia di Roma, Rome.  For further information please get in touch using the contact form.

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Throughout the romanized parts of the empire--in other words, wherever Romans settled, in Italy, Spain, Gaul, Britain, and also wherever the richer natives imitated the Roman fashions--the house in any city or considerable town was built as nearly as possible after the type described.

In the country the poor naturally had their much simpler cottages and cabins of a room or two, commonly thatched or shingled, knowing nothing of hall and court and all these arrangements of art and luxury. In the case of the more well-to-do country people of Italy--the larger farmers, wine-growers, olive-growers, and the like--the homestead was of a kind which made for simplicity and comfort. It was in such homes that one would find the most wholesome life and the soundest moral fibre of the time.

Normally the homestead would be a large, and often a rambling, building of one storey, except where a tower served as a store-room for the mellowing wine or a loft for the mellowing fruit. When we read in Horace about the liberal stack of wood to be kept in readiness near the hearth, and about the wine-jar drinking in the smoke in the store-room we must think of his country homestead on the Sabine Hills, not of a house in Rome, for at Rome there was no blazing hearth to sit round and no smoky tower-loft for the ripening of the Caecuban.

You enter an open court or yard, round the sides of which may run the stalls of the horses and oxen of the farm, the tool-rooms, the lofts of hay and corn, the quarters of the labourers--herdsmen, ploughmen, vine-dressers--and the great farm-kitchen. It is in this kitchen that you will find the bright hearth in winter-time, where all the members of the homestead gather round the fire. It is here that they then all eat, and in it the women of the establishment perform their work, spinning and weaving and mending. Off from the court will be situated the wine-press, or the olive-press, the-granaries, the fruit mellowing on mats, and the various rooms or bins where wine is fermented and stored, or where the olive-oil is treated and stocked. Commonly a more retired court will contain the private rooms of the owner, and somewhere in the homestead will be found the fowl-yard, with its hens, ducks, geese, and guinea-fowl, the sties, and the preserves for various toothsome animals, including perhaps dormice and snails.

Frequently a Roman of the city affected a country house of this character, to which he would flee during the tyrannous reign of the Dogstar or the Lion---in other words, during that hot season of the year which requires no description for those who have been so ill-advised as to sojourn in Rome in July, August, and early September. Many of his town slaves he would take with him, and what was a holiday for him was also a holiday for them. His rural homestead would possess great charm for the quieter type of man who had no real love for the pomps and shows the rattle and tumult, of the city. The vision of wholesome country-produce--of fresh milk and eggs and vegetables, and of tender poultry--is one which still attracts our city-folk. But the vision, then as now, was often subject to disillusion. Complaints are many that you had to feed the homestead in place of it feeding you, and when Martial has given a pleasant picture of a family reaching the gate of Rome with a coachful of the typical produce of the country, he ends by suddenly letting you know that they are not coming in from their country house but are going out to it. The complaint of the English seaside town that there will be no fish "till the train comes in from London," is thus a sufficiently old one. Yet the same Martial supplies another picture, painted with such zest of frank enjoyment that we are at once convinced of its truth. Some portions of it perhaps admit of translation in the following terms:--

Our friend Fundanus' Baian seat, My Bassus, is no pleasance neat, Where myrtles trim in idle lines, Clipped box, and planes unwed to vines Rob of right use the acres wide: 'Tis farm-life true and countrified. In every corner grain is stacked, Old wines in fragrant jars are packed: About the farmyard gabbling gander And spangled peacock freely wander: With pheasant and flamingo prowl Partridge and speckled guinea-fowl: Pigeon and waxen turtle-dove
Rustle their wings in cotes above. The farm-wife's apron draws a rout Of greedy porkers round about; And eagerly the tender lamb
Waits the filled udder of its dam. With plenteous logs the hearth is bright. The household Gods glow in the light, And baby slaves are sprawling round. No town-bred idlers here are found: No cellarer grows pale with sloth, No trainer wastes his oil, but both Go forth afield and subtly plan To snare the greedy ortolan.
Meanwhile the garden rings with mirth, While townfolk dig the yielding earth: No need for the page-master's voice; The saucy long-haired boys rejoice To do the manager's commands. At morn 'tis not with empty hands The country pays its call, but some Bring honey in its native comb, Or cones of cheese; some think as good A sleepy dormouse from the wood; And honest tenants' big girls bring Baskets with "mother's offering."

The visit to the country in the season of the "mad star" and the scirocco was as necessary to the ancient Roman as is his villeggiatura to the modern. But there were other seasons when he fled from town. If to the heat of summer he sought the hills, in the colder he might seek the south of Italy, and in spring or autumn the seaside at various points the mouth of the Tiber to southward of Salerno, might run away from inconvenient business or ceremonies, or through a mere desire to get rest or sleep or change. He might wish, as Cicero and Pliny did, to get away from the "games" and to study and write in quiet. He might fancy that his health called for baths in the hot springs on the Bay of Naples, or for sea-bathing somewhere on the Latian or Campanian coasts. To put it briefly, he was very much like our worried, bilious, or exhausted selves. His life of ceremony was a hard one, and often he ate and drank too much. But whereas nowadays we can make free choice of any agreeable spot, since every such spot possesses its "Grand Hotel" or "Hotel Superbe," where we can always find the crowd and discomfort which we pretend to be escaping, the Roman idea was different. It corresponded more to that of our English nobles, who, in Elizabethan or Queen Anne days or later, built themselves country seats, one, two, or more, indulging in architectural fancies and surrounding all with spacious gardens, ponds, and rockeries. The Roman man of wealth created no hotels. He dotted his country seats about in places where the air was warm for winter and spring, or cool for summer and autumn, by the seashore, on the lower hills, or high on the mountain side. You would find them on the Italian lakes or elsewhere toward the north. In greater numbers would you find them on the hills near Rome, at the modern Tivoli or Palestrina, on the Alban heights near what are now Frascati, Albano, or Genzano, along the shore at Antium, Terracina, Baiae, Naples, Herculaneum, Pompeii, Castellamare, and Sorrento.

Perhaps it is not too much to say that more than a hundred and twenty miles of this coast were practically a chain of country houses. The shore of the Bay of Naples has been compared to a collar of pearls strung round the blue. Wherever there was a wide and varied landscape or seascape, there arose a Roman country house. We are too prone to assume that the ancients felt but little love or even appreciation of scenery, and to fancy that the feeling came as a revelation to a Rousseau, a Wordsworth, or a nineteenth-century painter. That Roman literature does not gush about the matter has been absurdly taken for proof that the Roman writer did not copiously enjoy the glories presented to his eyes. But, though Roman literature does not gush, it often exhibits the same feelings towards scenery which at least a Thomson or a Cowper exhibits. Perhaps it was so accustomed to scenic beauties that it took for granted much that an English or German writer cannot. At any rate we are sure that the Roman chose for his country seat a site commanding the widest and most beautiful outlook, and that he even built towers upon his house to command the view the better. In this respect he was like the mediaeval monks, when they chose the sites of monasteries at San Martino or Amalfi, and his love of a belvedere was probably quite as great as theirs.

The country seat differed widely from the town house. We must forget the plan which has been given above, with its hall and court lighted from within, and made private from the passing crowds in the street. In the country there is no need of such an arrangement. Moreover there are no formal receptions to necessitate the hall, and there are ample gardens to make the peristyle superfluous. Here the walls of the house may break forth into large and open windows, while all around may run pillared verandahs. Built in any variety of shape, according to the situation and the fancy, it may contain an immense variety of sitting-rooms, dining-rooms, bedrooms, facing in every direction to catch the sun, the shade, the breeze, or the prospect, as the case may be. Not that magnificence is any more neglected than in the great English country seats. The pillars and pavements are as rich as means allow, and works of painting and statuary are perhaps even finer and more numerous than in town; there is more time to look at them, and there are better facilities for showing them off. Many of the best works of ancient sculpture now extant in the museums have come from such country seats. There were of course vulgar houses in bad taste, where the owner's notions of magnificence consisted in ostentatious extravagance and a desire to outdo his neighbour. As now, everything depended either on the culture of the man or on the amount of his good sense in leaving such matters to his artistic adviser.

Outside the house lie the gardens and grounds. For the most part these are laid out in the formal style adopted so often in more modern Italy and favoured so greatly in England in the early eighteenth century. Perhaps the Villa d'Este at Tivoli, though of course not ancient, may convey some approximate idea of the prevailing principle. Along one side of the Roman house we should find a smooth terrace ornamented with statues and vases, to be used as a promenade. There are straight walks and avenues between hedges and trees and shrubs--cyprus, laurel, box, and other manageable plants--cut to the shape of beasts and birds and inanimate objects. There are flower-beds--of the rose, the crocus, the wallflower, the narcissus, the violet, but not, for example, the tulip--laid out in geometrical patterns. There are trellis-work arbours and walks covered with leafy vines or other trailing plants. There are clumps of bay-trees, plane trees, or myrtles, with marble seats beneath. There is either an avenue or a covered colonnade, where the ground is made of soft earth or sand, and where the family may take exercise by being carried in a litter up and down in the open or under the shade. There are greenhouses and forcing-houses, where flowers are grown under glass. There are fish-ponds, fountains, and water-channels, with artificial cascades and a general suggestion of babbling streams. Out beyond lie the orchards and the vegetable gardens, where are grown most of the modern fruits, including peaches, apricots, and almonds, but not yet including either the orange or the lemon.

The country immediately round the mansion of the wealthy man was commonly his own estate. A portion of this was frequently woodland, affording opportunities for hunting deer, wild boar, and other game. For the boar the weapon was a stout spear, and the general practice of the sportsman was to wait at a certain spot until the beast was driven towards it by a ring of beaters. Deer were caught in nets or transfixed with javelins while running. In more open places the hunter, accompanied by hounds, rode after a hare. But though far too much of Italy was taken up by preserves of this unproductive kind, the large estates were mostly turned to agricultural purposes. Different owners, different practices; but the possessor of a number of country seats would in some cases work the land for himself by means of slaves--often in disgrace and labouring in chains--under the direction of a manager or bailiff, while in others he would parcel out his land on various terms among free tenants. It is gratifying to discover that in bad seasons a generous landlord would sometimes remit a portion of his dues, and that he recognised various obligations of a grand seigneur to his district. Among them was the keeping up and beautifying of the local shrines and contributing to buildings and works for the public comfort.

Such would be the country seat when established landward. By the seaside, especially in a much-frequented resort like Baiae, the room was more limited and the equipment modified. The extensive garden would be absent, and the height of the building increased by a second or even a third storey. It was no uncommon thing for such a "villa," as it was called, to stand out on a promontory, where it could be greeted by the sea on either side. In many cases it was actually built out into the sea on piles or on a basis of concrete, and the occupant made a special delight of fishing from his window, and of letting the true sea-water flow into his swimming bath.

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Wednesday, September 30, 2009

AWT: Do you remember your initial audition as Frankie?

ABM: I remember the screen-test. I really didn’t know much about Frankie from the sides except that she was originally named Francesca. What I was told about the character was that she was going to be brought in to shake up Nicole (Love) and Cass, and give Nicole a run for her money.

AWT: What do you think you brought to your screen-test that made it clear you were the actress for the job?

ABM: The scene for my screen-test was a pretty generic scene where Cass and Frankie were doing that quibbling thing they do and at one point I got the idea to inject something a little silly that might bring something else to the table. So I did a silly dance and allowed for a goofy moment. Then I had to wait because it took them forever to decide! Once I was tested, I signed a contract and was on hold for three weeks until finally I got the call. I found out that in those weeks while I was waiting they were tinkering with the character and made her a Frame so she would be related to someone on canvas (Sharlene) and also made her intro storyline to the show that she comes to Bay City to avenge her uncle’s death. Initially Frankie is convinced Felicia is involved and even got her arrested, which is how Frankie and Cass come together initially, at very extreme odds.

AWT: How much did you contribute to the character's evolution and direction?

ABM: Well, first my name was changed from Francesca to Mary Frances. Then I shortened it to Frankie because I liked her having a spunky nickname which I also had when I was on another PGP soap, The Catlins, where I played a character named Jackie.

Frankie took another unexpected turn when, in the scene where Frankie and Cass have their first kiss and recognize their attraction, they were at a hotdog stand, hiding from someone they were following and the scene called for me to eat a hot dog with sauerkraut and I told the director I don’t eat meat but would make it work with a bun with sauerkraut and everyone felt that worked for Frankie so she became a vegetarian. The crystal Frankie wore around her neck was initially my crystal as it was something I wore and the producers took that and the non-meat and decided to take Frankie on a New Age bent. It was a very flexible and creative that way. When Frankie went New Age she really took off.

AWT: What is your favorite storyline from your time in Bay City?

ABM: Kathleen/Cass/Frankie was hard, but it was the most dramatic stuff. It was difficult to retrieve the comedy considering that Frankie had a miscarriage and briefly died, but it was the best written stuff! In the later years, a storyline that I liked was when Patti D'Arbanville came on as Frankie’s high school friend, Christy Carson, who came to town and set Frankie up for her husband’s murder so she could go after Cass.

AWT: Do you have a scene that you think just went perfectly, couldn't have been done any better?

ABM: The ones that are the most fun are the biggest. A lot of the early scenes in Kathleen’s return story were great to play. One sequence that comes to mind is that just after Kathleen returns and before the triangle really begins, Cass gets in Carl’s face and warns Carl to stay away from his wife - referring to Kathleen and not Frankie - which Frankie overhears. At this stage, Frankie’s still trying to play it cool and act like Kathleen’s return isn’t driving her crazy. In a later scene, Frankie comes back in from a run and Kathleen calls for Cass and Frankie, who has been trying to not let any of this get to her. In that moment she just tosses off a line to Cass as she hands him the phone( I’m sorry I wish I could remember it!) that is just such a subtle knife to the ribs that was so very, very real and was the first time we got to see her anxiety about the situation show. I thought it was just a great, perfect subtle moment.

AWT: Is there a scene or storyline you wish you could make disappear from public consciousness? Or at least get the chance to do again?

ABM: There was one storyline with a woman whose child dies and Cass represented her in a lawsuit against the hospital and it involved prosecuting John for malpractice. Eventually the woman was to come between Cass and Frankie as Cass enjoyed being this woman’s white knight to her damsel in distress. Frankie was caught between growing more and more suspicious of Cass’ relationship with this woman and having torn allegiances between Cass and John. On paper, the story seemed great, but there was something about the execution and how Frankie’s part in it was written that just didn’t work for me. I liked that this was not another Cecile-type that was threatening Frankie’s marriage, but a woman who appealed to Cass’s need to be the hero. However, the way things played out and the roles we all played in the story just didn’t ring true to me at the time.

AWT: What do you think contributed to your fantastic chemistry with Stephen Schnetzer? How did the two of you go about creating it?

ABM: The screen test laid the groundwork. We made each other laugh a lot and cracked each other up really well. I tell anyone that the reason I’ve been married to my husband for almost 27 years is because my husband makes me laugh. We’re good friends as well as lovers and partners. Stephen and I approached our work relationship as a partnership. I haven’t worked with him in 13 years, but I still call Stephen my partner. There was a lot of respect between us and we had a shared commitment to show a different type of couple in daytime.

AWT: What did you love about Cass and Frankie’s relationship?

ABM: Stephen and I took the standard soap couple and tried to go beyond that. A convention of soap is infidelity and one thing I loved about Cass and Frankie was she was one woman with one man from the time she came on the show to the time she left. She never slept with anyone else. Yes, she left Cass and she had that one moment with Joe Carlino (played by Joseph Barbara) who was originally supposed to be Frankie’s first possible affair. We played it for one episode where he grabbed Frankie’s hand and they shared a moment of connection and the reaction was ‘What in God’s name is going on?!’ so that was that and Joe was sent off to shake up Paulina and Jake because they were a couple that was always in trouble.

When Cecile returned again and gave Cass a love potion, Frankie originally was supposed to enter, see them in the throes of passion, and she assumes the worst, gets mad and leaves. But Stephen and I fought to give the relationship a higher level of respect than that. They had been through a lot and there was an earned baseline of trust. Given how long Frankie and Cass were married and that they were in a mature relationship, and that Frankie knows Cecile’s game, Frankie would give Cass the benefit of the doubt and accuse Cecile. So that’s what we ended up doing! We played the scene as a joke where Frankie finally moves in to punch Cecile and hits Cass instead. One of the things I am most proud of about Cass and Frankie’s relationship was that Stephen and I were able to forge a stable loving relationship which was pretty unusual for daytime.

AWT: Can you tell us about learning about Frankie’s death and filming it?

ABM: I think that sometime in the last years I was on the show, the writing for Frankie wasn’t there anymore. In the last few years, Frankie was serving coffee and acting as the soundboard for others to bring up to speed on their story. I knew it at the time but didn’t know how to get her back in the thick of things. You have new writers coming in over the years and they prepare for the show by watching who is playing and create story for the characters that are already working so those characters continue to get the storyline and the airtime. There became so rapid a turnover of producers and headwriters that soon there was no one who was really familiar with Frankie. Frankie’s creators were gone and the newbies didn’t know who she was and so after a while, when they’re looking at the budget to trim costs, your name comes up.

I think it was a bit of a miscalculation on the part of the show to kill her off and in such a brutal way. They wanted something dramatic and her murder ended up being the entire hour. I think that they forgot who their audience was - they’re mothers. I really fought against giving Frankie a ‘beautiful’ death. There was something about ‘Take Frankie beautiful and at peace’ originally in the script and I countered that Frankie would’ve begged for her life and fought to be with her daughter so her death wouldn’t be beautiful. I allowed myself to make a few demands because I wanted Frankie’s death to be done realistically and I told them to have make-up put a big ring bruise around my neck, which they did. The audience was going to see the ugly realities of her murder.

A few weeks later, I happened to be at the studio and observed Stephen filming a scene that was supposed to be just three weeks after Frankie’s murder, where Cass goes to a disco and Cass the Cassanova was supposed return. Felicia and Morgan (played by Grayson McCouch) were going to confront him about it and Cass was going to defend his actions saying this was his way of moving on. Stephen saw me observing and we got to talking and I just told him ‘Wow. I have to tell you, this just makes me sad. This scene doesn’t respect Cass’s growth at all.’ And Stephen listened and talked to the producers. He ended up playing the scene with a more tragic tone, with it being Cass in denial and trying to lose himself in his old ways to avoid his grief.

Come back next week for Part #2 of our interview, where Alice discusses her return to Bay City as lawyer Anne, as well as Frankie's resurrection in "Another World Today!"

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

AWT: You played Kate on Somerset and one of the many Pattis on Search for Tomorrow prior to taking on the role of Olivia on Another World in 1980. How was Olivia different from your previous daytime characters?

TS: Olivia was very smart, as was Kate. Both were career women, but Kate was more manipulating, as her main job was Julian Cannell, and Olivia's was being a Nobel prize winning cardiologist. Patti was just sweeter by far and not interested in career at all. Her family mattered most

AWT: What are some of your favorite memories from your days in Bay City? Is there a scene or a storyline that particularly stands out in your mind?

TS: I liked being with Russ and having a crush on him. Loved the great clothes I got to wear I must say!

AWT: Do you have any thoughts on where Olivia would be now and what she'd be doing? (Many AW fans presume that Olivia ended up marrying Russ off-screen and was the mother of his daughter, also named Olivia, though that was never confirmed on-screen.)

TS: I imagine she did marry Russ and have the daughter, Olivia. I think they happily worked together forever - work was her life and his, too.

AWT: After AW, you moved to Guiding Light as Lillian, a much more passive, victimized character. Was that a difficult transition to make? How did it affect your acting choices?

TS: Lillian was hard for me to play. She had no backbone and this bothered me. I remember using Edith from All In the Family as the person I was being like. She just said 'yes' and did what she was told. Very hard for me, but I did it.

AWT: What are your favorite memories from Springfield?

TS: Springfield has been heaven. My memories of Lillian and Buzz, and the Lillian, Ed, Maureen triangle, and being the mother of Beth are wonderful acting memories as is the breast cancer story. I loved my wonderful twenty-six years in Springfield, and I will miss it so much. We are such a family there and love one another so very much.

AWT: Now that GL has come to an end, what are your plans for the future? Where may your fans plan to see you next?

TS: I am doing a play I co-wrote called Changing Shoes. Please go to and read about it. It opens in Atlanta on Sept 25 for a two-week run . I have been on every talk show down there and have a book coming out with the same title. So I am very busy, but will miss my GL. I loved it and am loving this next stage as well.

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Scrimshaw: a Whaling Story

Scrimshaw: a Whaling Story is Pedal Powered Anthropology’s current major documentary project. Exploring the cultural significance of the whaling era, Scrimshaw is an in-depth look at colonialism, industrialization, cultural values and identities,  the emergence of the modern city, and the environmental impacts of industrial hunting and fishing practices.

Looking back in time through historical documentation, interviews, and through the lens of art, Scrimshaw illustrates the cultural relevance and immediacy of centuries-old issues, connecting viewers with a not-so-bygone era.

The film is currently in production and is slated to be completed and released by Fall 2020.

This page will have all updates and behind-the-scenes glimpses of the project in production.

In September 2019 I met with scrimshander Jade Gotauco, who spoke about her art and the materials with which she works–some of which have been passed down in her family for generations. As one of very few scrimshanders who works with certified pre-ban ivory, Jade is one of the few left in the world who practices this art form legally on traditional materials.

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Thursday, October 20, 2016

Megg and Mogg in Amsterdam by Simon Hanselmann

Well, um, that was a thing, wasn't it?

I believe Megg and Mogg in Amsterdam is the second book by Simon Hanselmann about his series characters Megg, Mogg, Owl and Werewolf Jones, after Megahex. Megg is a witch -- green skin, long nose, black pointy hat, the whole package. [1] Mogg is her cat/boyfriend. They're both layabouts, stoners, and general losers with no apparent source of support. Owl is their third roommate, and the requisite functional adult of the group: he's a wet blanket, a whiner, and more than slightly annoying, but he actually holds down a job and presumably provides all of the income for this crappy little household. So he takes substantially fewer drugs than Megg or Mogg...which isn't to say he doesn't take any.

Oh, and Werewolf Jones is their dealer, who uses his own product far too much if his temper and mood swings are any indication. Jones also is the sometimes caretaker for his two feral tween sons, who are barely sapient at best. He sometimes seems to be supposed to be wild and wacky and a crazy guy, but more often he just seems psychotic and cruising for some very heavy object to be lovingly placed upside his head. There are some minor characters, too, but they tend not to talk much -- and the main four talk incessantly.

All of these are unpleasant people who do dull things in annoying ways and are both deeply horrible and deeply boring. Hanselmann's art, also, is on the dull side: he mostly uses a simple, almost animation-derived line, and his layouts are relentless grids, varying only in the number of identical boxes on each particular page. He generally puts a lot of small panels full of tedium on every page, so it takes a while to read all of the dull words these dull unpleasant people fling at each other.

You may guess that I did not exactly enjoy this book. You would be correct.

I don't mind comics about stoners -- I really loved Joe Daly's Dungeon Quest books, and wish there was another one of them right now. But I do need those stoners to interact with the outside world at least somewhat, and not sit and stew in their own drug-fueled misery. Even for stoners, Megg and Mogg are whiny dull losers, and that's saying something. If they did anything interesting, they'd be fine. If their non-adventures had snappy dialogue, they'd be OK. If the pages were attractively designed and pleasing to look at, they'd be all right.

But it's not all right. It's not even close to all right.

[1] She doesn't seem to do anything witchy, but then she doesn't do much of anything of any kind. That's kind of the point of these stories.

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1797 Antique Print Selkser Abbey Wexford

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A 1797 antique copper plate engraving of a Southern view of Selkser Abbey in County Wexford. Selkser Abbey is a 12th century Abbey and Augistinian House in Wexford.

The engraving is signed in the plate Barrett.

The engraving was published by S Hooper in Holborn, London in 1794 , however these works where not actually published until 1797.

The engraving is in an impressed area size of 8 by 6 inches with the engraving measuring 6 1/2 inches by 4 3/4 inches. The overall paper size is 13 by 9 inches.

The engraving and the impressed area are in good condition, allowing a good margin for mounting and framing, there is age related foxing and darkening to the paper edges, there is please see pictures.

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Weight.025 kg

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HC Deb 14 April 1983 vol 40 c929
10. Mr. Andrew F. Bennett

asked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what is the latest figure for the number of women unemployed in Northern Ireland.

Mr. Adam Butler

At 10 March 1983 there were 30,229 unemployed women claiming benefit in Northern Ireland.

Mr. Bennett

What will the Government do about that, particularly in terms of providing jobs for women in Northern Ireland?

Mr. Butler

The Government have just announced important measures to help employment generally in the Province. I am sure that women will take advantage of those measures.

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