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Once upon a time, when I was an undergrad (in the sciences) I wanted to read Whitman but could not get past the first couple of pages. Thanks for the introduction to the man - it reminds me of why I wanted to read him. I'll download his book and hopefully get a chance to read it.

Great advice. Now I know what I've been doing wrong. Gonna take some time to go back and fix up my articles in a way that may increase my sales. Just like housework - this cleaning up articles never ends!

I, also, did not know of the word, provenance. Thanks for the lesson. I so appreciate having the benefit of your expertise from your side of the counter. Now I just need help knowing how to distinguish the honest seller from the one who is trying to trick me and take advantage of my inexperience.

Thanks so much for this. I am just getting my feet wet in understanding how to value antiques.

I am taking a course now on appraisal of art and antiques. It is fascinating. Your article here gives another angle they don't talk about in class. Thanks.

I really believe I have this. I was not aware that there was a name for it until recently. I live in Virginia just outside of Washington DC. The winters are not too long but the lack of sunlight and rainy spells make me so depressed. This new house we live in does not have as much sunlight coming through and I can tell a difference. Maybe I need to get one of those lights! And take Vitamin D. Great article.

Thanks for taking the time to pass on your expertise to help others, once again. Much appreciated Lis!

Go you! Your profiles were missed today, but for good reason. Aside from personal email and my visiting school's website, I participated by being more or less totally offline personally, because I didn't have any websites to take down. I did replace my facebook profile picture with a SOPA banner saying my picture had been removed because it violated SOPA.

For a bit in the afternoon though, I got curious and started exploring the different ways favorite websites, blogs, and comics had taken themselves offline. My personal favorite was definitely theoatmeal.com. I love that guy, I wouldn't have expected anything less from their sites PIPA/SOPA protest.

And, watching the internet lose wikipedia today was quite entertaining. It clearly had an impact in some fashion (hopefully more or less positive though, but I was annoyed to hear that people could get around it by using the cached site from Google. -.- Defeats the purpose).

Anyways, you have a really good concise but simple and clear explanation of SOPA/PIPA in the intro section, so I've been sharing this with friends asking about the bills, or what the blackout today has been about, instead of trying to explain it myself. Thank you for that ^^

I personally like the hanging shoe organizer. It doesn't waste a lot of space and does the job!

This was beautifully written. There's so much confusion with what SOPA and PIPA are, so Having well written articles about how this could effect us on the internet is so important.

Who would have thought that you could have celebrities at your wedding. What a neat idea.

Excellent advice! Amazon took a while for me to understand but I am doing much better!

Ugh... this is what happens when 50-year-old man meets internet.

Thanks for the kind words people! Really the writing bit is the hard bit - and most of you are very good at that - SEO is the easy bit!

Lovely ideas for a Valentine's Day proposal!