For Gardeners with Arthritis Pamper your favorite gardener this holiday season with thoughtful gifts that will help build the Pillars of Strength to keep them gardening for many seasons to come! I’ve compiled a special list of 18 gift ideas for your special gardener. 1. Vego Garden Raised Bed From $160 These sustainable, zinc-coated raised …
Gardeners are on their feet – a lot! Is it a cliché that women love shoes? Expensive shoes? Lots of them? But what happens when we go to the garden? We give our feet the Cinderella treatment. I don’t mean the fairy tale ending, prince charming sweeping treatment. I’m talking about the relegation-of-the-lowliest chores kind …
I like to dream big when it comes to the garden. My annual letter to Santa typically consists of outrageous and practical gardening gifts. My outrageous wish list includes: Greenhouse (a perennial on my list) She-shed (beautifully designed, with potting bench, room for all my tools and a few lovely antiques) A trip to Hawaii …
I need a new mattress. I hate mattress shopping. You want to get a good deal and not overpay but it’s so confusing and impossible to comparison shop. Plus, shopping is exhausting when you have chronic pain. When my old mattress was about ten years old, I started trying to shop. I compared different types of high-end mattresses. The Fixer …
It’s been years since arthritis has allowed me to sit behind a desk full-time, but my accountant brain still kicks in sometimes and has me thinking of pain in terms of debt. Like your earnings, you have a limited amount of activity to spend before you go into debt. Pain debt. What does pain debt …
Some of my best gifts ever have been Mother’s Day gifts. Some husbands don’t think it’s their responsibility to get their wives a Mother’s Day gift – she’s not my mother, they might think. But The Fixer has always honored Mother’s Day as a hallowed holiday. He modeled to our children that mothers should be …
My friends’ children are all getting married these days and having babies themselves. When you get to a certain age, girlfriend conversations invariably turn to “what do you think is the most important thing to look for in a mate”. The amusing answers, rich and employed, are suggested and quickly turn to – loving, a …
The Mandalorian is not a show that I would watch – normally. You see, I don’t enjoy futuristic, dystopian shows. It bothers me to think of a desolate and barren future. Isn’t there a place in the future for beauty? And flowers? And color? I also don’t like shooting and fighting. So, there is nothing …