Very simply, unless you live in a drought-prone area don’t water your lawn and don’t weed it. It produces oxygen and supports small wildlife. To be even more ecological, get some exercise with a push mower.

Coincidentally, I just started reading this book (finally). I’ve only read the first chapter and it’s scary. Also coincidentally I’ve been reading a book on the Yoruba goddess Oya, goddess of winds and storms.

Good old Arthur. When my daughter was young she recognized that it also gave little moral messages, too. It’s on early in the morning where I live. Much nicer to have on than the news.

What’s up with Iceland? First the TV series “Katla”, wherein doppelgangers of the living and the dead emerge from a volcano -- now this.

The other theme that I noticed early on, at least in his first several films, is that of malevolent beings, human or otherwise, trying to get into the house. The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Signs, The Village, all have protagonists who are trying to protect the vulnerable. There is an element of this in The Happening…

Narrowing the browser window - it worked!

The woman in the airport waiting room mentioned that “someone was killed” at the resort, so it wasn’t explicit yet that it’s murder. Maybe someone is found floating in the pool.

One to two years? Yikes! How about one to two decades?

Or that she is envious that Paula gets a hot guy and she doesn’t. From the rather aggressively casual way she talks with her father about gay sex she may have sampled the waters herself, but she could also be feeling resentful of someone else “taking” her friend away.

I was a little tipsy while watching the episode, so I have great admiration for Steve Zahn’s ability to play drunk without being a cliched drunk.

He was probably not hanged, but garroted, i.e. strangled with the cord visible at his neck. This seems to have been a common method of human sacrifice at that time, perhaps because it was quick, sure, and didn’t disfigure the body.

Would you like that hand approaching your sexy bits? I wouldn’t!

Yes, do read that article - it is magical.

I’m having this issue right now. (Pandemic inactivity and drinking.) I refuse to buy larger pants, so I’ll give these methods a try while I’m attempting to make myself smaller.

I too expected that to be the answer, but evidently the author and respondents were limiting their inquiry to the 400 years of American history, as opposed to the last thousand years of Western civilization.

Because it’s the middle of the afternoon and we all need to give someone a thumbs-up.

When I first went abroad, in 1968, travelers had to get a smallpox vaccination. When you go to the tropics you are required to get a yellow fever vaccination. You can decline if you want, but no vaccine, no visa.

Another rabid Betty fan! How can this be the finale already? We just got started, and the girls’ new paths have only just begun. It’s fascinating on all levels.

In college, where everyone was complaining about how much work they had, a scientist friend who enjoyed his work explained to me, “In physics, ‘work’ is defined as ‘motion against a resisting force’. So if there’s no resisting force, it’s not work!” An adage I have borne in mind all these years.

I’ve got a thick one cut from friend’s hemlock tree back in 1964. I don’t do anything special to it except washing it and hanging it up, and it still serves me well.