@chumsabilly, you're right about the water. I once worked as a sous-chef for a professional chef, who taught me that adding milk or cream toughens the protein in the eggs. I took that on faith, tho...

I also thought it was a hotel room.

My collection covers MANY topics, and I have many books per topic. I need to organize them by Call Number, the system used in research libraries. I'm not happy about marking the spines, though. I r...

Ditto on fresh-ground good quality coffee beans. Once upon a time, Groundworks supplied them. Once there was a Camelot...then came shareholders. Now I'm searching. Any Westside LA denizens have rec...

I love them and use them -- partly because they solve a problem. Harsh light makes my vision blur, sometimes even sparking a migraine. This is much worse in the morning or when I wake up in the mid...

Any info available about that GREAT piece of art that illustrates this post?

Love the house. Even more deeply, I love that channel-back chair. My grandmother had one and I've been searching for one like it for years. I will be ecstatic if more pictures of the chair -- and p...

Yes to Eliot. And/or Dickinson. Maybe "Wild Nights".

We used to do this in the Seventies. Big fun.

Random literary question for fans of Anton Chekov: Does the gun hanging on the wall go off by the end of the third act?

I think it's great.

"Villa designed [it] as a daytime escape..." Escape from what? The luxury of the rest of his fabulous property? The blessing of his talent and education and success as an architect? Sorry. V...

Invest in heavy-duty good-looking casters with good brakes. 1) Turn one side into a home office: You'll need a good carpenter to advise you on how to install metal bracket suppor...

Sounds like your idea will be lovely: bamboo blinds that can roll up or move aside (depending upon your choice of horizontal or vertical configuration) with overlaying sheers that roll up or move a...

@poppet72: I apologize. I had no right to be so snippy; please chalk it up to my wounded foot (sliced a divot [no, really - 1/4" deep and big as a half-dollar) out of my foot and I am just cranky f...

poppet72: Try e.e.cummings, dear. maggie and milly and molly and may went down to the beach (to play one day) and maggie discovered a shell that sang

That's "far more sense..."

No, thank you: "one in the same" Yes, please: "one and the same" Idioms (phrases like this one) abound in the English language (more than in others.) Many people learn them and u...

...and to the rest of you: If you can recommend a good image of a red wheelbarrow, I'd be thrilled.

For Henriette the Terrible: William Carlos Williams tells us (and he should know) that "It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found t...