This is an old piece that I wrote for House Next Door, but I have a lot of new readers, and I can’t seem to write much these days … so perhaps you all would enjoy it.
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This is one of my favorite pieces of yours Sheila. I LOVED reading about “Bringing Up Baby”. The fact that she had absolutely no idea what the hell she was doing. None,. And then she was SO open to someone literally showing her how to do it.
That’s how brave she was. She wasn’t afraid to say she was lost, and she needed hep.
Brilliant.