Cleaning My Closet We are finally renovating our master en suite, the workers are due this week.   The one problem is that we are als...

As Fibers Seep into Water, States Seek Warning Tags     By Lindsey Rupp     Bloomberg News I have written before about the conten...

Meet the Camelids – Part Three In my previous blogs I discussed the members of the camelid family: camels, vicunas and guanacos.   Tw...

Meet the Camelids –Part two In Meet the Camelids (part one – 4-15-18) I discussed the origins of members of the camelid family, namel...

Meet the Camelids The Camelid family originated in North America around 50 million years ago, and one would have thought that camel...

Hubert de Givenchy   1927-2018 Givenchy has died at the age of 91.   The House of Givenchy released a statement lauding the founder a...

Today marks the birthday of Levi Strauss (Feb.26, 1829),   the creator of the most widely used article of apparel.    Levis, the first of...