image  via     Last week I finally got around to reading  July's People by world-treasure Nadine Gordimer . I loved this bit, where...

Ariel In the Center of the Lagoon Ne bula , © A. Caulet (ST-ECF, ESA ), NASA Ariel and I were classmates at the University of Michi...

[image via ]  "I feel good with my husband:  I like his warmth and his bigness and his being-there and his making and his jokes a...

Sierra (photographed by Rebecca Hoogs ) in A Beautiful Boomerang Nebula, © Hubble Heritage Team  Sierra's praises are sung so sin...

background Marimekko Ruhtinatar print via I tend to prefer oils to lotions, but this creamy & dreamy new Wild Rose Pampering Body...

Roland in Zeta Oph: Runaway Star, © NASA, JPL-Caltech, Spitzer Space Telescope Roland contacted me after Ayla Peggy Adler's interv...

All critters created by the LBJ Conser-clay-tion Club. As I was last year around this time , I'm breathing Pacific Northwest air r...

Zia & Cody in the NGC 5189: An Unusually Complex Planetary Nebula, © NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage What wonderful luck to meet Cody du...

fresh year at Fresh Pond Happy New Year, dear Nosy readers! How is your 2013 smelling so far? I wore Avignon plus some dainty dabs o...