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Today's Biz Ladies post comes from Regina Morrison, owner of a small handmade-accessories business, Acute Designs, and a freelance writer. Currently living in San Diego with her husband and two crazy dogs, Regina recently escaped her 9-to-5 job to actively pursue life as a handmade business owner. Today, she shares some tips for the shy biz lady. For those of us who are terribly afraid of putting ourselves out there and rubbing elbows with fellow biz people, Regina offers some easy tips on how to get your business noticed without letting your nerves get the best of you! Thanks, Regina, for this wonderful post! — Stephanie
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I don't know about you, but I am a little socially awkward and a lot shy. I envy those who can work a crowd, throw themselves out there and approach anyone.
The ability to put yourself out there without fear is a small-business owner's dream quality. However, even if you do not possess this quality and you are as shy as me, there are a few things you can do to overcome this often saddling personality trait.
1. Use your loved ones.
I am great around people I know. My family and friends would tell you that I never shut up. Put me in a room full of people I know, and I am the star. Put me in a room full of strangers, and I will not speak.
Like most, I am comfortable around those I know, and I use this to my advantage. Do you have a friend who could potentially aid in your business goals? Solicit her for help. The same goes for family members; these people want to see you succeed, and they might have the ability to open a lot of doors when you are too timid to even knock.
I own a small handmade-accessories business, and three of the stores I sell my wares in are due to friends pitching the owner. In each instance, it was organic, and once they got the go-ahead, I was able to take the reins. When I knew that a trusted friend had opened the door, I could step in with confidence.
People in your life love you. They want to help. Use this to your advantage.
2. It is okay to hide behind the computer.
In today's do-every-single-thing-online world, it is amazing how many businesses have popped up. Social media is the shy business-lady's forum. Unless you wish to do so, you never have to meet any of your blog or Twitter fans in person. (And, if you do get to meet them, it is like you are old friends. There is none of that first-meeting awkwardness that I so dread.)
Via social media, you are able to collect your thoughts and say the right thing. It is as if you are always prepared with the perfect comment or comeback. No one will know if you are embarrassed by a comment or if your face has turned beet red.
3. Email like crazy, but know when it is time to pick up the phone.
Email is my preferred method of communication. When I am approaching a store about a wholesale order (or an owed payment . . . ), I email. In my experience, those who want to respond will respond. But there are times when a phone call is necessary.
I am not a fan of making an unsolicited phone call, but it won't kill me. If I have sent an email, this call is a lot easier because I have a jumping-off point. Usually, the person received the email, got too busy to respond and welcomes my phone call.
If the reason you never received a response is because they are not interested, then the worst they can say is no.
No. It isn't my favorite word, but it isn't the worst word I have ever heard. The fear of hearing the word "no" or "I am not interested" often prevents me from making a call that could greatly impact my business. It's times like these that I suck it up and pretend my shyness doesn't exist.
4. Be as nice and polite as possible.
Many times, my shyness has been misinterpreted for rudeness. Since I am aware of this, I go out of my way to be courteous and kind, especially in emails, where it is so hard to convey tone.
Addressing someone by their name, smiling and a simple please and thank you go a long way. Even if you are too shy to show your true self, at least show your courteous self.
Shyness does not have to hold you or your business back. If it is part of who you are, embrace it and know when it is important to overcome it. Knowing which situations require a little gusto and which need your more natural, reserved self is key to being successful.
And always remember: Thank goodness for the internet because I never could have been a door-to-door salesperson.
thanks for this. I definitely fall under the "socially awkward" shy category. It's nice to know I'm not alone!
such a great post! I totally needed to read it!
This is incredibly helpful! Even though this is all stuff that we know, it's so helpful to have someone with experience say it. Thank you.
Wonderful advice! I know I am very shy and many of my fellow crafty/art people are too. thank you for sharing :)
I loved this post! I am a shy person myself and the tips really helped me a lot!
wow, you said just what I needed to hear today.. I'm allso painfully shy when it comes to anything business related or involving self promotion.
thank you for giving me permission to hide behind my computer screen:)
I agree! My friends and family went to bat for me in a huge way–they were my biggest cheerleaders. They spread the word about my blog and talked about me in ways that I could never talk about myself.
Also, the internet is great for building your blog and your brand…when you're first starting out, email communication makes the most sense anyways. After you've established yourself, you will start getting invited to more in-person events. I found that those first few months of promoting and networking online gave me the confidence to eventually network face-to-face.
This was so very helpful and awesome to read! I am deathly shy, especially with new people, and like you said, unsolicited phone calls! AH! I've been getting better over the years, but I recently discovered that when I'm shy others perceive me as aloof, cocky or incredibly confident… how odd, right?
Thanks again for this lovely post!!!!
I tend to be a very quiet person, too. It really is the online world that has given me a place to thrive. Love this!
Great post! It's so nice to hear advice from a fellow shy person.
Great post! Your description of yourself fits me like a glove. Will definitely use these tips in the future!
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Thanks for sharing these pointers! As a shy person, I struggle with everything you mentioned but it's important to not get tripped up!
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Thank you! Thank you! From one shy girl to another :-)
Love this post!! I am in the shy category myself. It was a great post to read at this time. I just recently launched my small biz and in search of helpful insight! Thanks for sharing! ;-)
Great post!
i agree fully with 1, 3 &4 but i think it's okay to push yourself to get out in the public too…meeting people who are truly interested in your art is a fabulous thing!!
Great post! Thanks.
I so relate to this: "I don't know about you, but I am a little socially awkward and a lot shy. I envy those who can work a crowd, throw themselves out there and approach anyone."
Tell me, how do you smile in an e-mail? Like this
What a great post! Such good advice. Once I read about a study in which all the physiological measures of anxiety were taken from people in two groups – average people with no diagnosis and those with performance anxiety (a type of social anxiety) right at the moment that the subjects had to read something in front of a crowd. Surprisingly, everyone had similar levels of physiological anxiety (sweaty palms, increased heart rate, etc) in both groups. The researchers concluded that those without social anxiety simply interpret the physical signs of their anxiety differently than those with social anxiety. Apparently, it's possible to learn to interpret feelings of anxiety as your body's way of giving you extra energy and alertness for when you have to perform. While I still struggle with learning this new way to think about my anxiety, it's certainly nice when it pops into my head instead of just my old way of looking at it. Thanks again for the good post!
Excellent article!!!
So nice to see someone address this… it really is so hard to do things sometimes when you are shy. I've been trying to network and meet people who I feel I could learn so much from, and every time I make those contacts, I have to take deep breaths and calm my racing heart. So thanks for making me smile and saying, "It's ok."
Thank you so much Regina, Stephanie, & D*S for this great post! I am so shy when it comes to most things, but starting a blog has changed so much of that already. People actually visit MY site and use MY advice in their life – it's amazing! I really appreciate that you shared this article with us. Also, you're so right about using a person's name.. it's so rare that I hear my name these days (in person or in writing) and it makes such a difference. It really lets you know that the person you're talking to knows exactly who they are talking to and are paying attention.
Thank you so much for taking the time to write this. Such great advice! I needed to hear this.
Great post with wonderful advice! This is something that I have struggled with for many years. It's good to hear advice from a shy yet successful business person :)
Thank you for this post. I have Social Anxiety Disorder. Communicating with people (in any way) is one of the MOST difficult things for me – even when it's positive communication. Thank you, thank you, thank you for the advice.
Finally! We shy biz ladies have been waiting for this for a long time (so glad to hear I'm not alone!).
Although, since launching my business I have found that it has forced me to become more comfortable with being out there and candid. In fact, I think the constant push to contact people and conquer my fear of speaking on phones to strangers has made shyness less of a problem.
Now, if only conquering my fear of messing up legal paperwork was so easy to fix!
what a wonderful post (I especially liked, "at least show your courteous self")! I would like to add that i've purchased from your store, Acute Designs, and I was very happy with your service and thrilled with the items I purchased. I get compliments on the earrings all the time.
Wonderfully worded! Thank you for the advice…giving me the courage to make a change! Keep up the awesome work!
wow, what a great post seeing as though i want a bakery so bad and i just don't know how to "put myself out there". although #1 makes me a little sad because my family and i are very close, but they aren't very helpful to me :(
Great post! I totally fit the shy business lady category. It is so much easier to post, tweet and comment to 100s or 1000s of people on the internet than stand in front of a group of strangers and talk. Though I think expressing opinions and comments online have actually helped a great deal in conquering "real" life shyness!
What a great post, Gina. It's all so true and I imagine that your words have helped many shy women think 'I can do that now!'. A break through for them and all because you weren't shy in coming forward to help out with your experience… ironically! x
So insightful! There are also super outgoing folk who are terribly shy (like me). What this means is I avoid new relationships and situations, but when in them you would never know I'm afraid because I can talk to anyone, have an easy manner, and even enjoy myself. I also LOVE public speaking. It's getting out the door, or taking the plunge to invite the world in that is the hurdle. That, and a fear of conflict or of a problem arising. In the end I'm always glad I made the effort to connect, but the impetus to push myself from a fixed position is the hurdle. If I can get the momentum going, the rest is easy.
Very helpful post. Thank You!!!
great post! thank you.
I use social media a lot but thats because I constantly travel, but it works. I am also one that quit 9-to-5 and started my own business in creative field and now love every minute of work!
This post was perfect encouragement with impeccable timing.
This was a great post. I'm not a biz lady but I still found it to be helpful!
ah, I'm not the only somewhat shy entrepreneur out there. Thanks, this post was helpful!
Thank you for encouraging the shy creative me with some great ideas!
I notice all previous comments are from woman, but men can have this problem also. I know I have talent, and I know that I work hard, but when it comes to "selling myself" I fall flat over and over again. Thanks for the tips.
From a shy biz gal, this is welcome advice indeed. I've been advised by far too many people to beat my natural tendency toward shyness into complete submission and become an extrovert. I'm SO over feeling guilty for being who I naturally am! Thanks! :)
great post – family and friends are the reason I kept going with my bag business – they would organise bag parties and invite all the friends, and helped spread the word. I get so wrapped up in the 'making' side of things , so it's really helpful to have family who help to get you out there:)
This post was so great. I think lots of us are actually shy…it takes chutzpah to put one's creative ideas out there!
My grandma had a good phrase I like to remember…because I am actually quite shy, and always feel anxious before getting out there…
"Go have a good self-conscious time".
Thank you so much for putting this out there. I am a latecomer reading it, but I do see many others also appreciate your well communicated insights. Wonderful post!
thanks so much!
Thank you.
Thanks for the well written and helpful article.
Perfect post! So much of the reading up on being a small business owner, is so heavily weighted on the networking side – nice to know you don't always have to be a social butterfly to succeed. Thank you for the tips
thanks stephanie for this wonderful post! my husband is my biggest fan and lets everyone know my talents as i never could myself! {oppsites really do attract!} emails are great and i do fine communicating this way for my business, probably better than i ever could selling over the phone or door-to-door as you mentioned!
thanks for sharing!
Great article! I definitely agree that calling is a much more direct approach, and I can tend to be one of those people who becomes strangely shy around people I don't know–especially in a setting that requires talking yourself up. I'm also wary of being too "pushy"–I never want to seem too forward. Maybe there could be a follow up article about how to approach people when you're starting a business without feeling too pushy?
Great article!
This was a great post! In my mind, I like to believe that I'm a social butterfly who can work a crowd, but in reality, I'm really shy and I talk to strangers in an awkward, robotic form. I guess I'm a better listener than a talker. I generally need to give myself a little pep talk in order to get myself out there. My family has been great in terms of spreading the word about my business and my husband has always been the local salesman for me. I'm hoping I can overcome my shyness!
Great article, and so helpful!
I had to smile at the part about just sucking it up and pretending the fear doesn't exist: That's exactly what I do when I need to accomplish something and don't have someone to make an introduction for me! It's a great strategy!
You still won't see me out there, in people's faces like some people can do, but I can at least talk to people, which is a start!


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Here are 6 tips that will make you look like a rockstar when promoting your small business online from the Small Biz Lady, Melinda Emerson.
Here are 6 tips that will make you look like a rockstar when promoting your small business online from the Small Biz Lady, Melinda Emerson.
During the course of their career, every small business owner gets stuck. The key is to know where and how to get unstuck.
My annual survey of 5,000 small business owners identifies the problem areas. Here are a few excerpts:
Bonus: They rarely review their financial statements. The Survey: Over 20% never look at their financial statements because they are hard to understand. The Solution: Get trained to understand every line of the company's financial statement. Review them monthly.
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Black Friday is always a difficult day for small business owners to compete with the hoopla around early morning discounts at big box retailers. The day after Black Friday has become a day to focus on shopping at small businesses. American Express started Small Business Saturday in 2010.
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When you own a business, working with other people is an absolute necessity, whether you are working with employees, outsourcing specific tasks, or hiring legal or other advisors and more. And working with other people means that you have to put your trust into other people, which can leave business owners very vulnerable to all kinds of violations of that trust- including fraud, theft, and even incompetence. So, with that in mind, here are 4 tips to help protect yourself and your business when working with other people:
1. Get Everything in Writing
Many people are very trusting and want to take others at their word. But in the business world, verbal agreements can wreak havoc not only on your business, but also on the very partnerships that those agreements were formed between. So, I always advise getting everything that you can in writing. First off, a lot of people don't listen very well. Secondly, individuals can interpret the same exact conversation in very different ways. And lastly, while most people have good intentions, let's face it, there are a lot of scammers and delusional folks out there, too. So, having your conversation written down (especially in a legal contract of some kind if anything major is on the line) will clearly identify the parameters and expectations of that agreement and help prevent misunderstandings. A lot of times, and especially in small businesses, agreements are entered into at the beginning of a partnership or work relationship when everything is going great, but eventually, an employee will quit or a service provider will flake. Having that written agreement will help keep everyone accountable at a minimum, and give you some avenue for recourse if someone isn't holding up their end of the deal.
2. Know Everything That Goes on
Business owners often decide to work with those that they trust the most, from family members or lifelong friends to a close legal advisor or mentor. But the only person that is entirely vested in your own success is you, so it is of the utmost importance that you not only are aware of, but fully understand every aspect of your business. Make sure that you know what every employee is doing, what every contract is about and where every single cent is being spent. Delegation is important, but as the business owner, you are ultimately the only one responsible for knowing everything that goes on. If you don't, it leaves you very vulnerable to theft, legal action or even the unintended ramifications of incompetence from an employee or partner. We all want to think the best of others, especially if they are a trusted friend or family member, but unfortunately, there are all kinds of situations that can put your business (or even personal) assets in jeopardy. So, make sure that you understand every aspect of your business!
3. Have a Process for Accountability
Another great way to cover your bases, particularly when it comes to the financial aspects of your business, is to have two unassociated individuals sign-off on every major decision. This includes anything from writing and cashing checks to signing off on contracts and purchase orders. And this also means that you should have a separate lawyer, a separate accountant, a separate agent, etc. all from different companies and that don't know each other in any way. This process will help provide accountability to keep your best interests in mind, identify any problem areas or issues more quickly and prevent any conflicts of interest.
4. Know Who You are Really Dealing With
During interviews and first meetings, people do their best to impress and this can make it extra difficult for you to know who you are truly hiring or doing business with. With the internet, doing thorough reference and background checks is easier than ever, so make sure to follow through. And you can learn a lot about who a company or individual truly is from their social media sites like FaceBook or Twitter. You can even run credit checks to make sure that before you enter into a business endeavor with someone, they aren't in big financial trouble. This will help ease your mind about putting your business and trust into someone new.
Do you have another tip for trusting others in your business? Please share it below.
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Stefano Volpi called the other day to inform me about more upcoming changes at his Broad street brasserie, Etienne.
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I am addicted to my iPhone. There, I said it.
I didn't realize this addiction until the other day. It's like crack to me (second to coffee). Let me explain.
I have two teen boys who also have smart phones. Unlike me, they seem to pay no attention to the fact that we have limitations when it comes to how much we can utilize the internet on said smart phones.
Apps such as Pandora and Netflix tend to eat that space up -- and FAST! Especially when one falls asleep while logged into it.
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A politics blog by Martha Zoller, a Republican and past Congressional candidate herself, is reporting that state Sen. Bill Cowsert, R-Athens, will not be running for the congressional seat being vacated by Rep. Paul Broun. He will instead run for re-election to the state Senate.
Broun, also a Republican, is leaving the U.S. House of Representatives to run for the U.S. Senate.
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"I consider Senior Leadership Academy to be a great gift. As Charles Kauderer once told me, it is Athens best kept secret. Each week, I went home Thursday afternoon brimming with new insights and/or information," stated Cyndy Harbold, a recent graduate of the program. The 2013 Senior Leadership Academy came to a close on Thursday, March 28. Sponsored by the Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) at the Athens Community Council on Aging (ACCA), the program lasted eight consecutive Thursdays beginning February 7, 2013.
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Gluten Intolerance:
I am often asked whether I can test for gluten allergies. Unfortunately, the inability to digest Gluten proteins is a sensitivity rather than a food allergy (such as in patients with peanut allergies). In this sensitivity or intolerance, the digestive trait can not break down a certain pattern of amino acids that make up proteins called glutenin and gliadin.
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In the space that we adults and children share at my middle school, at some point there will be crying.
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A rumor flittered by that Piedmont College was eyeing Georgia Square Mall property -- a rumor that the college's president wants squashed. Below is a full email response from him regarding the rumor:
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The news and internet have been all abuzz about food allergies. Last month the national media covered the death of an allergic young adult who died after eating a cookie made with peanut products. Katie Couric covered the topic of "How to beat food allergies" on her show. While those discussed therapies are showing promise, they are still in the early stages of testing and are only available at major medical centers. Many other treatment options are also on the horizon to treat peanut and other food allergies which I will talk about in a future blog. But let's begin with some basics:
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This week's ABH Investigates focuses on domestic violence and the women who were able to find a way out. The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence reports "one in every four women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime." As a young, single female, this staggering statistic makes me stop and think. Although I have never experienced domestic violence myself, I probably know someone who has, someone who has suffered in silence. I applaud the women who are courageous enough to get out and tell their story, and just hope that one day, if ever in that sit
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Italian Fever
Valerie Martin Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 272pp, £12.99
Italian Fever
Valerie Martin Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 272pp, £12.99
by Amanda Craig Published
Novels about British or American women finding love in the Tuscan hills can seem like a cliche. Henry James wrote one, E M Forster wrote two, and I myself must confess to a couple. It is surely asking for trouble to publish another. Men hate the idea that Italian men really are divine in bed, women hate the idea of other women enjoying themselves, and everybody except John Mortimer goes a bilious shade of green at the very name Tuscany.
Yet Valerie Martin's Italian Fever is an absolute joy to read. Having won the Orange Prize last year for her dour romance Property, about life on a slave plantation, she is in happier territory here with a novel that is part love story, part ghost story, and a wholly enjoyable and intelligent summer read. Its heroine, the knowingly named Lucy Stark, is editor to DV, one of the world's worst, bestselling novelists. Martin has immense fun describing just how terrible his macho writing is. "Thinly disguised accounts of his own life", DV's novels feature "big, strong men with large appetites, big ideas", even though their author is "not five feet five", is often ill and "had so thoroughly destroyed his digestive tract with bourbon that he subsisted on a bland diet of boiled meat and rice". Lucy is relieved when she hears he has died without finishing another abysmal book.
Asked to retrieve DV's last, unfinished manuscript, she travels to Italy, where she meets Massimo, a startlingly handsome married Italian with "wolf's eyes" who rapidly seduces her when she falls ill. So far, so much as expected. Yet DV has died in a septic tank, under mysterious circumstances, and in the absence of Michael Dibdin's Aurelio Zen to do the sleuthing, Lucy has to investigate. She visits her author's landlords, a snotty pair of aristocrats whose plain, stiff son Antonio is chillingly aloof. She visits DV's ex-wife, Catherine, a voluptuous painter in Rome. She has one too many epiphanies in front of Great Italian Art and an inexplicable encounter with the supernatural, but the lessons she takes back to Brooklyn are touchingly unexpected.
Lucy is an engaging New Yorker of a kind too seldom encountered in fiction, though plentiful in real life. Plain and middle-aged, she is sensible, sensitive, civilised and modest. Her own sensibility having been formed by Henry James, she cannot understand why her publisher wants the coarse fictions of her employer, but she copes. Wryly observant of snobbery in its American and European forms, she succumbs to "the foreign universe of desire, passion and obsession" because "nobody had ever shown such an interest in her before", and because, like all of us, she has an imaginary version of herself at which she has not yet learned to laugh.
All the characters are drawn with discretion and assurance, and Lucy's inevitable withdrawal from Massimo after their period of erotic bliss is managed with dignity. She knows she will never again have a night like those she spent with him - and, I'm afraid, for many women who have had their own Massimos this is all too true - but what she discovers about friendship is far more important, interesting and sustaining.
This is a wise, intelligent novel about how bad writers can suffer just as much for their art as good ones, and how true friendship is better than a thousand kisses. It should be enjoyed both in its own right, and as a worthy addition to the growing line of Tuscan fictions.
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With these creative sets designed by Martha Stewart you can now punch a continuous pattern around any size paper or cardstock. Set includes one large Edge Punch and one large corner punch. Designs measure 1-1/4-inch deep. Available in a variety of designs-each sold separately. Imported.
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I saw this on sale here on Amazon, fell in love with the results in the picture and added it to my cart. When I got it I played around with it a bunch and I couldn't quite get anything to line up the way it should, there was always an extra space somewhere around the border. The corner punch was fine.
So I read the directions and saw that
"to create one continuous die-cut border, Punch your corners first and then then use the edge punch to connect the pattern from corner to corner using the guides printed on the tool's wings. Punches can be used separately"
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Which isn't really an inconvenience, I'm just glad I know so that I don't end up making a card or whatever look like crap. (This is also my first border punch, so don't judge me monkey)
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Lovely design
Feb 11, 2011
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Well-designed punch set. Fun to use and very pretty square/rectangle 'doily' look. Do make sure you are not punching on heavy cardstock. It still works but you will need a lot of punching power. As with most craft products, it's better to play with some scraps & see how it works best for you.
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This punch is versatile for both scrapbooking as well as card making. Additionally, if you cut a 1" strip of paper, punch all one side, then turn the paper around, realign it in the punch and punch all down the other side of the strip of paper, you can create a beautiful border. This is a trick I have seen on T.V. and it truly works for many of the MS punches. Enjoy!
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Definitely a cute punch, but buyer beware. If you're using this for the occasional card or scrap book page, it's a great buy. Very cute, very easy to use. However, if you plan on using this for card stock or for frequent use (making place cards for a party, edging for wedding cards, etc.) this is NOT the product to get. I have been helping my roommate make decorative bands for her wedding invitations and went through three of these. One broke after a test run, the second broke after punching 8 bands and the third broke after another 35 or so. I don't believe the plastic housing and metal punch mechanisms inside are sturdily built or put together in such a way that it's made to last. Buy cautiously and use sparingly!
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The double arches look very pretty, but doesn't work on a thick paper.
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I bought this to decorate my daughter's wedding reception card and the program. I only used the double arches and used it for the top edges of the cards and programs. It needs a little practice but was easy to apply and they turned out very pretty!! We like it.
I did not use the corner pattern because it did not cut well. Especially the top part of the outer loop did not cut out completely, I had to pull the paper out by hand then the loop may break. It works fine with a regular copy paper but it gets stuck if you try it on a thick paper. I wish this set is sold separately, then I would just buy the double arches.
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Replacing mulch
I have brown mulch now and I am buying burnt orange mulch. Should I get rid of all of the old mulch?
2 yrs ago is when I replaced mulch the last time. I ordered 8 ordered to go around my house and my blue spruces. If I just want to leave the old mulch and cover it with the new stuff how much should I order? Or is it best to just take the old mulch out completely so it doesn't mix in and look stupid?
Let's assume that this is not a wind up for a minute, I am sure it is but let's suspend reality here.We purists try to design gardens that take account of what already exists so that the result is, if not totally vernacular at least fitting in some way. Now we are talking about changing the colour of a material that covers the soil to something more coordinated with the colour of the house. Do you see a contradiction in this or perhaps working backwards from my premise? If we go just a little further in this direction we could add artificial turf that has no reason at all to be green surrounded by a fence painted any way that Alice wants or a few tons of rocks that belong on a beach. Call me old fashioned but should we go down this particular rabbit hole?
If you really want orange mulch...then remove the old mulch and replace it with the orange mulch. That way digging squirrels cannot destroy your carefully planned color scheme.
Besides...old mulch can harbor plant pathogens. So it's a good idea to replace it for plant hygiene reasons.
If colord mulch is what you feel is best then take out the old and replace with the burnt orange. The reason that the dyed mulch is not such as a good thing is because the chemicals in dye can leach into the ground and be carried to storm drainage ponds or holding areas then make its way to rivers and streams. Much like the chemicals we put on our lawns. So natural mulch is a much better choice for the eco syestem. I am a big fan of the colored mulch because of its stunning look. However I use natural mulch and let the plant material put on the show. The natural does its job by enriching the soil, keeping weeds in check and holding moisture in the soil. Less watering. If 8 yards is what it takes then that is the way to go.
Aside from the fact that I personally would not use colored mulch, what I hear you saying is that you have a lot of concerns about matching, and adding, and what if it looks stupid. So that to me sounds like colored mulch will take you further into a zone of worrying about your mulch color from here on out. Is that what you want?
One of the reasons for the "natural" mulch approach is not just due to concerns about toxins, or personal taste in garden decor, but just that it's less hassle if you don't make your mulch, color or otherwise, the focal point of the garden. Goin' natural is more forgiving, the eye is sort of programmed to ignore it, you can repaint your house, evolve different colors in your garden plants, without worrying about matching at all.
Up to you, though.
All of the above, and more. I don't know, colored mulch always reminds me of the tester blotter by Kresge's lipstick bin... a slash of this next to a slash of that.
Having looked at your post with the updated patio pictures; you might get more bang for the buck by searching out burnt orange chair cushions. Better your bottom than the blue spruces.
Hey guys let's see if we can push this one to the 150 posts limit, there are pictures duluthib? .
I have been around gardens since before 'mulch' was considered an accessory to a gardens design like lipstick is to 'whatever' and even before someone burned an orange. I can't understand why someone would want to put lipstick on a pitbull, that is not a dog you would want to piss off as it has a character of its own and "chewed human" lipstick would not add anything constructive. Obscure? What is wrong with the colour of the earth over there where dinosaur lives?
I think burnt orange mulch can be seen from space!
I had some of it in my backyard woodland garden near the conservation land... it wasn't until I saw a pic of the yard taken from the deck did it really strike me as glaringly un-natural. Now the area has a living mulch of viola labradorica with great little black accented dark green heart shaped leaves.
If it's useful for dino, really depends on the type of garden and the context.
Dino- I'm not into burnt orange. I've had a thing about orange since childhood. And I'm not getting into the high energy color contrast thing you'd have going on with that burnt orange under your blue spruces with the blues and grays of your house.
I'm getting a monochromatic picture in my mind's eye for you, Dino. Lots of blue. I think you are a blue sort of person. I'm thinking cerulean, cyan, perse, sapphire or maybe even periwinkle. Take it deeper or softer. Do they have blue mulch?
And, blue is a natural color. Just look up. Whole sky of the stuff.
And, if you still want some complimentary accents, think of the gorgeous way that would set off your marigolds. I remember from an earlier post that you are fond of marigolds?
A short time ago there was a post asking how to restore color to orange mulch as it faded quickly. Unable to find the discussion at the moment. However these colored mulches do fade so it seems a useless endeavor to remove the old mulch as shortly all will blend together.
Note to Ink...have you considered, based on recent questions here, that in these lean days of landscaping jobs there is another aspect of the business for which one could charge a consultation fee? Would really be easy. Show up with your color wheel ready to fulfill an owner's desire for garden decoration. Thanks to programs such as Curb Appeal, potential customers are being led down the garden path, led to the false understanding that landscaping is changing house colors, installing new front door, adding some sod surrounded by a few plants in bloom at the moment. Yup, that's where it's at...garden decoration, coordinated mulches, no understanding of future growth and appearance...finis...
Pictures? Yes, indeedy. Look at page 2, Sunday, May 9, 2010, post entitled "Suggestions for Patio design, New Pics after updates". (Sorry, I'm link challenged.)
I think this could go to 150... even without twirling windmills or grandma's cake stands glued up into totems.
Here's the link ...
But inquiring minds want to know ... Was Grandma's cake left out in the rain? And was the icing color burnt orange?
Here is a link that might be useful: Suggestions for patio design
Okay I just saw the pics of your patio (Dino), and I think that is not the proper color mulch at all! Quite frankly your patio would then look a graded test exam with a bright red teaching assistants mark around your answer to explain where it went wrong. YOu did good by consulting with the LD pro's (I'm not one though).
Dino I would suggest you try just 1-bag of it just to see. If you want a little faint red coloration and a great smell, put in some cedar mulch.
Thanks for the visual (I think) at least I know the question is serious now. Didn't someone suggest spray paint on that thread Nandina well, this may be the answer as we already have painted rocks why not painted mulch? And talking about future growth given time those spruces will take care of most decorating needs eventually although a few hanging bowling balls might look nice, burnt orange would be my choice of colour.
The www is just loaded with information that will probably never come up on Jeopardy but will be forever wired into my long term memory...
...Specialty Mulches such as Red (for early, cool season tomatoes), Metallic (for insect control) Brown (for higher soil temperatures) and Blue (for melons and squash).
Black Plastic Mulch for, but not limited to: tomato, pepper, eggplant, and vine crops.
Translucent Mulch, SRM Olive, is used for crops where an increase in soil temperature is desirable, ie, vine crops.
This company didn't carry orange - could be fruit, veggies, annuals, perennials, trees, and/or shrubs didn't respond in any way to this color.
Love that exquisite blue, cearbhaill...for melons, squash AND YUCCA. That's almost religious; the BVM in virginal white offset by blue and standing on a clump of something. (But not limited to cake stand totems.)
Even Jamie Durie used an unexpected cache of bowling balls in the last Outdoor Room program I happened to catch. The "Wisconsin Inspired" one. I think Wisconsin is known for more than beer, brats, barns, and bowling.
I don't know if that worthy couple is going to be able to handle the arboretum's worth of plants dropped off by the Monrovia Nursery truck. There was the raised walkway and "impression" of a barn though.
I must confess that I didn't devote much time to this research but I couldn't find a timeline for when 'mulch' shifted from being a material that was spread between plants mainly for weed suppression to being a garden accessory. Why are chewed up and coloured palettes so sought after? Why is the sky blue? Where do the wurst brats come from? So many questions.
Question for Ink (and anyone else who wants to take it on):
There seem to be two dominant reasons for eschewing dyed mulch:
1. The dyes are harmful to the environment.
2. It doesn't look "natural".
It suddenly struck me that only the first reason, the potential harm in the dyes, is really of importance. The second reason is simply a current norm.
Fashions change. Garden fashions change. Maybe burnt orange, or blue, or pastel speckled mulches will make people re-think their outdoor spaces. Once upon a time elaborate annual bedding designs were de riguer. Now we frown on annuals, except as fillers or quick, but temporary answers. Landscapes have also taken this long trail toward creating Nature in My Backyard. But how well do we really do it? How much of our fixation on making things look natural is really more about making our yards look like the current standard. Which can vary in particulars, but must adhere to certain fixed criteria, if it's going to be considered ... oh, I don't know what word to use ... fitting? Acceptable?
Question: Do well-designed gardens always look natural?
If so, why? Who came up with the standard for natural that we ascribe to in our gardens?
To put it another way, What's wrong with blue mulch?
Why are chewed up and coloured palettes so sought after? To create markets for recycled wood products
Why is the sky blue? Raman effect
Where do the wurst brats come from? The worst parents
The dyes are harmful to the environment. If this was true then there would have to be an MSDS or application instructions on the mulch bag, so a counter question is what chemical in mulch is more dangerous than the fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides found in the same garden center?
I was trying to make a different point that was not based on the rightness or wrongness of natural vs. unnatural from a style or taste standpoint, but on the extra effort of maintaining the unnatural look that leads to questions such as, should I replace the mulch. This idea allows one to take into consideration square footage, cost, access, whether your "color" will be available whenever you need it, what is the average lifespan of the mulch you are using, how long you'll be living there.
It's not atypical for maintenace companies to replinish mulch every year, to compensate for that lost to decomposition or other processes. Typically the coloration fades with time, so the annual renewal is also needed to restore the color. If you start with a natural colored material, then how the color change with age really is not quite so striking as with dyed mulches.
Red food dye has been re-approved for food use, but I don't know if that's the same dye used for colored mulch.
The dyes are harmful to the environment. If this was true then there would have to be an MSDS or application instructions on the mulch bag, so a counter question is what chemical in mulch is more dangerous than the fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides found in the same garden center?
Okay, I'll allow that the dyes in mulch may not be harmful. But who trusts that warnings are always accurate or that knowledge of the effects of every chemical is complete?
If mulch is made from shredded shipping pallets, how do the buyers of used pallets know how the wood may have been treated -- or what possibly dangerous substances may have spilled onto the wood at some point (especially if the pallets originated in China)?
This is not to say that there aren't many other things we buy that have secrets we don't know about.
[Confession: I have been known to compost paper printed with colored ink.]
As usual you have seen the sharp end Wellie. There was a time when gardens were looked down on, that is viewed from the 'piano' (second story) level. To be amusing patterns were drawn out on the ground (parterre)and filled in with sand, coal and anything else that provided a 'paint by numbers' solution. None of this had any horticultural significance as plants were seen as simply another material to play making patterns with.
I am writing a book here without touching on 'nature'.
To replace hyperbole and defensiveness with open discussion of facts, see the abstract below for an interesting discussion of arsenic in SOME dyed mulch. The indicators of potential arsenic in the mulch are also presented.
Here is a link that might be useful: Arsenic in mulch and indicators
Interesting link, so now I won't feel bad when I'm asked to use the stuff. But I do wear gloves, as my hands always get stained!
Making patterns with mulch is an idea also... maybe mixing different colors together, red/black mulch, white rocks, colored glass, androcks with peanut oil ;)
Anyone else picking up on the zen of all of this?
Patterns in mulch ... like that sand art thing. Or maybe I'm just flashing on orange robes In the LA airport in the 70s. Hari,hari! Krishna, krishna! or something along those lines ...
Maybe we could even sell limestone rocks? Remember Pet Rocks?
Years ago, when people were asking about landscaping glass, somebody posted some links to photos of Mondrian-inspired landscapes. I was looking for them in connection to this thread, but didn't have any luck.
To be honest, I could see something like this in the foundation bed in front of my garage. A knot garden that wouldn't be thrown off by the sun/shade differences from one end to the other. However, how in the world I would keep the leaves out of it is mind-boggling.
My next door neighbor uses a bright orange mulch in lieu of grass UGHHH! and whenever we get a winds - I find chunks of it spewed all over my front lawn and in my driveway.
Perhaps your neighbor would consider a bright orange snow fence to match his mulch.
Pic of plastic snow fencing in case you don't see much of it in 8a:
Obviously, welly a garden is an artifice. It may well have the intention of representing nature but a nature passed through the mind of a person. There is no way you want nature in your garden, nature is wild; Cindi Lauper not Polyanna. A garden is nature 'perfected', modernists attempted to deny this gardening fetish but without much success. What this means is that although a garden is artifice to be successful this must be disguised as spontaneous.
I agree, Lehua, Ink is delicious. Right now though I think I'm close to delirium. Played hard all day in the garden, but realise this evening that I have, of all things, a head cold, achy in the joints, hope-I-don't-get-a-fever thing going on.
The word that caught me up though is spontaneous. First thought was to wonder again if Dinosaur is "spontaneous" or "artifice". Take that one on the literal level, but also wondering about how the human - environment connection really plays itself out. I mean, where does "human" and "nature" diverge? Maybe playing with colorful mulch is very essentially human--"Because I can. Because humans like to do things like this." So, Humans are nature, too, aren't we?
A few weeks ago I was reading The Architecture of Happiness. Interesting text. An idea was presented there--not the author's, if I remember correctly--that architecture expresses what we long for. He used the move in landscape architecture of the past few decades to try to tame nature and put it in our yards as one example. As Nature (capital N) disappears, we want to put it in the yard. Controlled, of course. and, looking "spontaneous" rather than artificial.
Not exactly Isabella, "a reflection of our society's view about itself and the world" is a difficult concept for me. I was talking specifically about nature in response to Wellsprings post of earlier and what it means to a gardens design. It is interesting that in yesterdays reply at 21:10 Wellspring wants to capitalize the word nature and this is an idea that does possibly reflect a society's view of the world. Nature has always been scary, if you have ever been at sea during a storm or stood close to a haystack on fire or walked through a forest at night or any other unsettling experience you have witnessed the power. Spelling the word with 'N' names this power but this is not what we want; when we talk about a 'water feature' we don't mean 15 foot waves and a force 10 wind. So I guess what we want Isabella is a suggestion of nature, you know not three wild horses running through foamy water but a reproduction print on the wall.
Please note that I have written this 'off the cuff' and if I ever get the time to elaborate I will.
I took a humanities/philosophy class awhile (long...) ago in high-school, and we studied how philosophy changed with the advent of the age of reason and scientific thought. In a pre-20th century relatvistic understanding of the nature of matter and energy, there was the classical mechanics understanding of the world, which was dominated by a sense of order and sense that we knew everything about our world.
In my question about the topic (landscape patterns and Man's interpretation of Nature) being discussed herein regarding I was trying to understand if the idea that a garden (landscape) was influenced by the general pervailing philosophy of the era in a manner that other art forms were. A bit of a deviation maybe from the thread, but I'm trying to synethsize an understanding of how garden design in various ages is a comparative reflection of how philosophy has also evolved. I'm sure some changes are more fad and/or reactions to emerging technology, but maybe an overall sense of the age be seen in the arch-type garden design.
Sorry to be rambling on, and maybe this is more of a landscape architect doctoral thesis topic, but I find it interesting to consider.
Very interesting read here. Bet you wern't expecting all the great posts on mulch. Get the orange and don't spray paint something else to look orange. Chances are that is going to be worse and will not weather well. The key here is weather. To me it is like this. If I am the only one in my area that uses colord mulch shame on me for what I could be introducing into the environment. If all my neighbors use colored mulch shame on all of us for the same reasons. If you really want the burnt orange go for it but realize that it will fade and have to be top dressed each season. Ask yourself if you can get the same color every year. Maybe for some time you will. Then possibly your taste in color will change. Do check the compounds of dye and the safety to the environment. It may be minamal. Over time it maybe a bad thing. I don't see the mulch police comming to arrest you. What ever you do and I hope it was a joke. Don't spray paint. This just seems so wrong on so many levels.
Last time I posted, I mentioned a cold coming on ... Loathe being sick, but seem to be on the mend.
And ... as Storm says above, there are some things of interest here. First, spray paint. Did I miss something? Did someone suggest spray paint to create and/or "touch up" Dinosaur's future mulch? I think the spray paint was for the rocks Ink suggested as an additional accessory?
Ink, the Nature v nature thing. I was playing with an idea in Alain de Bottons book The Architecture of Happiness. Isabel mentioned philosophy. De BottonÂs other books include How Proust Can Change Your Life, The Consolations Of Philosophy, and the Art of Travel. The main sections of The Architecture Of Happiness are: The Significance of Architecture, In What Style Shall We Build?, Talking Buildings, Ideals of Home, The Virtues Of Buildings, and The Promise of a Field.
Roughly, as he proceeds, he gives a sketchy overview of the history of architecture, exploring as he goes the whys and wherefores of what humans have tried to communicate when weÂve built the buildings that matter to us the most. Occasionally, he deals directly with landscapes, because, after all, buildings always find themselves located in a scape of land somewhere.
When I posted before, I was trying to capture his take on the idea that architecture expresses what humans of a certain time most long for. So, in a way, itÂs both what you are saying, Ink, and what Isabel may be after. One thing we long for now is Nature. IÂd even say that we sort of long for the scary sort. Because we know itÂs slipping away. Or, because of what weÂve done to it, itÂs becoming something even scarier. We long to restore Nature, but we remain conflicted about it.
Much of what de Botton has to say deals with the communication between ourselves and our built environments. From one perspective you could say he has a great deal to say on burnt orange mulch and why and how we "feel" about it. He writes:
"A more disturbing aspect of associations lies in their arbitrary nature, in the way they can lead us to pass a verdict on objects or buildings for reasons unconnected to their specifically architectural virtues or vices. We may make a judgment based on what they symbolise rather than on what they are. We may decide that we hate nineteenth-century Gothic, for instance, because it characterized a house in which we were unhappy at university, or revile Neoclassicism, (as exemplified by the German ambassadorÂs residence or by the work of the architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel) because it had the misfortune to be favored by the Nazis. For proof of the capriciousness with which architectural and artistic styles fall victim to baleful associations, we need only note that, in most cases, little besides time is required for them to recover their charm."
Burnt orange mulch, however, isnÂt regarded as "charming" mostly because of the connections, real or otherwise, that we make between colored mulch and nature. We say, "It doesn't look natural." Well, lots of things in landscapes historically didn't mimic nature. Or, we say, "It'll harm the environment." Once upon a time, no one had that worry. That's a sign of our time.
Back to de Botton Â
"If it is true that the buildings and furnishings which we describe as beautiful evoke aspects of happiness, we might nevertheless ask why we find such evocation to be necessary. It is easy enough to understand why we would want such qualities as dignity and clarity to play a role in our lives; less clear is why we should also need the objects around us to speak to us of them. Why should it matter what our environment has to say to us? Why should architects bother to design buildings Which communicate specific sentiments and ideas, and why should we be so negatively affected by places which reverberate with what we take to be the wrong allusions? Why are we vulnerable, so inconveniently vulnerable, to what the spaces we inhabit are saying?"
In other words, how is it that burnt orange mulch can say so much to us?
Didn't find the quote connecting contemporary landscapes with our longing for nature ...
What luck to stumble upon this fascinating thread on a stormy night, after months of not checking this forum.
> This just seems so wrong on so many levels.
I couldn't have said it better myself, although the scope would be a little different than what stormz4 had in mind.
What on earth is a *:facepalm:* ?
A *facepalm* is what you do in a situation where someone has acted in such a way that you can't find words to express your reaction.
It involves covering your eyes with your hand. Sometimes people lean over; sometimes the head remains upright; often it's a bit of both. Usually it's done with one hand, but both hands may be used.
The asterisks indicate "facepalm" is to be interpreted as a gesture rather than a spoken word.
The Star Trek: TNG examples are frequently posted in message boards.
I'm guessing digging missed the thread on spray painting for color coordinating the mulch. &_& (which is apparently an emoticon for eye roll).
Should probably start a new thread - the OP is presumably still getting these emailed to him per his request.
The bottom line is that mulch of any kind is a a temporary groundcover. You plant a groundcover in the mulch and it takes over as the mulch deteriorates. All you should do after that is give the groundcover a top dressing of compost or wood chips as needed.....if needed. Much less material, labor, and money, than a complete mulch replacement.
Colored mulch as a design statement is foolish at best IMO.
Removing the old mulch and replacing it with a new colored mulch is even more foolish. You only see whats on top.
mjsee, no, I've never used this handle anywhere else. And unfortunately I haven't seen your name on any other site I frequent.
I realized about 10 or 15 years ago that it was one of my personality traits ... took me a long time to realize I miss the obvious, because that was so obvious I missed it....


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Bathroom Exhaust Ducts Disconnected in Attic
Recently I made a trip up to my attic to measure for buying Flooring for storage when to my dismay I saw that both bathroom ducts were laying on top of the loose insulation and I noticed what appeared to be black spots on the interior roof inside the attic. I didn't venture throughout the attic but am now worried. We have had the house for one year and in that year we have been using the exhaust fans in our bathrooms. Unfortunately, since the inspection of the home I never thought to go up there. This was a remodeled home with a new roof (etc). Now when I go up I find this and I can only surmise that this has been that way for sometime since the mold spots are already black. I was able to tape up one of the ducts to the vent but I could barely get duct tape around it because the hole was small and also because there were rusted nails from the roof sticking through near the tight opening. Anyway I have two questions, first is what is recommended for clamping these ducts to the damper vents on the roof? Should I use some kind of zip tie or metal clamp with a screw? I couldn't reach the main duct as it was a ways into the attic and there was no flooring for me to get over there. The second question I had was regarding the mold, am I in deep trouble? Will I have to rip out the new 30 year roof and replace? Will insurance cover this? What is my recourse here? BTW the ducts were attached to the vents by duct tape. Thanks
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I too was a victim of the crappy zip tie from a previous owner that left damp air to pour into my attic. The zip ties are a cheap substitute for a metal hose clamp that save the fan companies a few pennies - and the zip ties fail after a few years. Get the metal hose clamps at your local hardware store.
I'm curious only.. where do you live? I was suprised to hear you have mold in the attic from the amount of moisture from a bathroom.
If you're in Houston or other humid area I can understand
the moisture never leaving.
I would ask about the 'as is' sale of your house. that is,
if it was not 'as is' then you have recourse especially
if the mold is due to the duct not being connected.
Where do you live?
I say I'm surpised to hear of the dramatic effect of the fan from a bathroom into the attic
I say this as in my experience it's usually little moisture
from a bathroom fan and the attic being warmer or vented can get rid of the moisture pretty fast.
Good luck. I'd figure your home purchase is going to
be backed up via the real estate agent who sold the property.
Anyone know where he goes first to complain?
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Governor Jerry Brown is widely expected to sign State Assemblymember Tom Ammiano's AB 1266, which would allow public-school students to choose the bathrooms... More»
There's nothing cooler right now than brewing your own beer, growing your own vegetables, or crafting your own furniture. But it's not as if you have to pay... More»
Earlier this week, the Board of... More»
Between 1996 and 2002, Gabriel Roth worked a variety of positions at the San Francisco Bay Guardian observing the dot-com boom, which he now... More»
Since the Golden Gate Bridge opened in 1937, thousands of people have tried to kill themselves by leaping off. Only 34 have lived. ... More»
Everyone has a smart phone today with thousands of free games at a finger's touch, but the original dinosaurs of gaming are making a comeback thanks... More»
Kate Kendell spent Pride Weekend pretty much the way you'd expect of someone who has devoted the last quarter century to fighting for... More»
As the investigation into Saturday's crash of Asiana Flight 214 continues, the cause of the catastrophe—and of the deaths of two of the passengers... More»
The Great BART Strike of 2013 is over (for at least the next 30 days). So that means it's time to pick the winners and losers. We'll let you decide... More»
It may not be apparent from the surface—especially not to frustrated commuters—but the ongoing BART strikes have a larger political dimension... More»