Sensitive skin

Not thin skin, but sensitive skin. I have sensitive skin, and it’s been that way all my life. As a child — My bug bites always swelled up. Brushing a weed in the field gave me large itchy bumps while everyone else was itchy without bumps. Or not itchy at all. My mom dearly wanted…

Christmas smelting

If you are new to my blog, you may not be familiar with the term “smelt” in the way that my in-laws use it. For them, “smelt” means to make from nothing. As in Saturday Night Live, circa 1987. The idea of smelting began as an alternative to buying full-blown retail prices, to keep the…