The house I’m in now came with SO MANY inspirational wall stickers!  I had a lot of fun peeling off the letters and rearranging them.  The master bedroom had “Always kiss me goodnight” in cursive letters just above the headboard of the bed.  It now reads “Always kiss goo.” 

Nah, you looked fine.  Your brows have a quirky little squiggly shape, and I think they’re cute!  Better than the cat’s, anyhow.  Seriously, who draws their brows in vertical lines?!

Some folks have mentioned getting them with good results. Someone also mentioned that she tints her brows with henna to match her henna’d red hair. I tint the greys in my brown hair with a henna/indigo/warm water mix. Different ratios of henna powder to indigo powder produce colors ranging from red to auburn to brown…

I know you’re joking about Rihanna’s psyche, but I actually worry about the psyches of young girls who are over-exposed to high fashion editorials and Instagram and Youtube makeup tutorials on a daily, hourly basis. When I was growing up, I had one or two subscriptions to teen magazines that came every month, and I’d…

Just keep in mind that once kids go to bed, they don’t always stay in bed!

How do you henna your eyebrows? I henna/indigo my brown hair to cover grey roots, and I do it by mixing the 2 powders together with warm water, applying it to my scalp, covering my head with a plastic bag and knitted cap, and sleeping on it, then rinsing it out in the morning. I have to use the plastic bag and ski cap…

I misunderstood your comment and scrolled back up to look for ear hair in the Dietrich photo.  :-\

So many people have said that their brows didn’t grow back after shaving that I believe it can happen.  But I do wonder why -- what quirk of biology tells eyebrow hair follicles to just give up after being shaved off at the surface?  Lord knows my arm hairs don’t give up that easily!

I was hoping someone else would mention this since I’m “gray,” but algae oil has the same levels of omega-3's in it (DHA and EPA), is equally bioavailable, seems to perform just as well in studies, and is much more environmentally sustainable than fish oil.  And, anecdotally, I didn’t notice “fish burps” when I took…

Also, our oceans are changing rapidly from the over-harvesting of various species of small anchovy-like fish for the fish oil industry. The “Fresh Air” NPR podcast had a recent episode about it:

Yes! It’s true for insects, spiders, and mammals too! If you feel something crawling on you, and you don’t jump up or swipe it, it has no reason to sting or bite you (unless it’s a mosquito or tick). I once had a gnat fly into my eyeball on a bike ride. (My bike ride, not the gnat’s.) I stopped, gently closed my…

Hello, fellow slug-saver. (Although for me lately it’s been earthworms... why do they think they need to cross a paved road just as the sun is warming it up?!?) I’m scrolling through this months-old comment section and read yours and just wanted to point out a couple things:

I’ve come to Splinter a few times, read some articles, read the comments underneath them, become absolutely befuddled trying to make sense of the arguments therein, and gone away dazed, bewildered, and with a nagging sense that liberals/progressives/Democrats are a swirling abyss of tortuous, tangled moral outrage and…

I identify with her comments about “#metoo.” I absolutely believe and applaud the women in the movement, but nothing remotely like that has ever happened to me. My physical appearance is similar to hers, and my “vibe” might be similar too. Even when I was much younger and maybe more conventionally attractive, I’ve…

I’m going to look up that podcast now.

I clicked on this article because I just needed to read something that wasn’t about all the horrible events in the world. I’d never heard of Susan Rogers, and although I loved every Prince song I heard on the radio over the years, I wasn’t a mega fan (I have one cassette tape, and I just remember that my favorite song…

I have a friend who has two pregnant goats. She’s never owned goats before. She was told that goats give birth easily without complications, so she hasn’t made any preparations for emergencies. I know a sheep farmer who not infrequently has to intervene during lambing season. Are goats different from sheep in this…

That’s good to know. I guess it comes down to different dispositions, and I shouldn’t assume that my way of handling grief is universal! Bernd seems to have set a good course for her own healing process, so I trust she’ll read my comment and yours and do what’s right for her. I just wish good things for her.

Thanks. I wish I lived in sight of his house; then I’d be the snoopy old lady spying on him through the curtains! (Hmm, that doesn’t make me sound all that sane here....)

That’s one of the reasons I turned to SNS for anonymous advice instead of asking all the neighbors first. I don’t want to start rumors or feed prejudices based only on my few observations. Maybe the child has depression and the mom was using fireworks and target shooting to cheer him up (although she seemed to be…