Houseplants: Green Friends Worth Keeping

The key to growing healthy plants is to remember that they have feelings, just like you and me. Sometimes they feel sunny, shady, lusty, misty, crummy, unwanted and even unloved. Treat them like favored pets and they will love you back (without a visit to a vet or the litterbox!). Name your plants. T his bonds them to you and “drink, Maxine, drink”, goes a lot further than just pouring water down a pot. Don’t buy or sell your plants on their birthdays as this will cause severe separation anxiety. Avoid mentioning above a whisper the names of holidays and … Continue reading

Don’t Go In the Basement Or Even Near The Door

Films and literature have adapted the subterranean depths of our homes as repositories for all sorts of monsters, some with two legs and some with too many to count. Let us not forget the English classic: “Beast in The Cellar,” where two old respectable ladies keep an even older secret about a hungry uncle who lives in the basement of their townhouse and eats only dinner guests. The shriveled remains of Norman Bates’s mom still lurk somewhere in the fruit cellar of that very strange house on Psychopath Hill, and Edgar Allen Poe committed the perfect murder by locking a … Continue reading