As many of you already know, I am a shameless Annick Goutal Mandragore fangirl (actually, I’m pretty much an Annick Goutal fangirl). Mandragore is one of the few fragrances I wear often enough that I have had to replace the bottle. So news of the overseas release of Mandragore Pourpre, a flanker, had me all [...]
Compound by Loren Eiseley Plant quiet like a seed within your heart And let it grow and split that organ through. Let the fierce root rive all such walls apart, Let the dark flourish, let your words be few. Out of the earth and dreaming in the sun Though the years burgeon, it is well [...]
I’ve removed it from under all of my fingernails, but it’s stuck, godammit, under my left thumbnail. The dirt. So when I’m dressed up smart, advising senior leaders in schools, there’s always a reminder of my basic scruffiness underneath; that I am, to some extent, pretending my workaday role, and what I really am about [...]
Today our fabulous Guest Poster Anita/Musette talks about her cool construction job, and her other construction work — layering perfumes! A piece of angle iron. Simple. A 30´ container loader. Complex. But it starts with a piece of angle iron. And a genius partner. And some serious cojones if one is to translate that genius [...]
Deputy dawgs!!! Lo, behold, I, your lovely Sheriff, bring you… a threaded comment upgrade with the return of the emoticons!!!! As we say on the Posse, squeeeeeeeeee!!! So leave a comment even if you think my review is crap, just so you can say hi to Mr. Clown or Miss Pig etc. again! Also there [...]