Radish

 People were talking about making their Thanksgiving mashed potatoes mixed with horseradish. Which reminded me of my adventures with gardening. 

When I had a garden, I grew horseradish. OMG - that's a big plant.  Ground it up to season things.

Another year I planted white radishes because I liked to buy white French radishes at the farmer's market. Well. The seeds they sell you for white radishes make huge things. about a foot long and three inches in diameter at the top. It turns out they were oriental radishes, so I gave them to some asian friends who knew exactly how to prepare them.

And - a Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.

Who was C.W. Bowie?

 C.W. Bowie is the pen name of three writers.  (no room on a book spine for all of our names, therefore we created C.W. Bowie. )

C is Claudine Wirths.  W is me.  

And the third part - Bowie- is a shortened version of Mary Bowman-Kruhm's name.  

Together we wrote the picture books - Busy Toes and the companion book - Busy Fingers. 

We had a lot of fun creating those books. It was in the mid- 1990s and the internet was in its infancy, but we kept sending the manuscripts back and forth by this new thing called email.  

I had met one of them on a computer bulletin board that was using GE's computers at night, because at that point, businesses stopped using their computers when everyone went home, so someone got permission to use it and called the internet bulletin Board - GEnie - and off we went. Many, many different subject areas. My husband was in an antique auto group and discovered there was a writer's group there (several of them) and he got me into that group and I met so many other writers, famous and not. I met Claudine there and she introduced me to AOL and the writer's boards there so I could meet her writing partner, Mary, and off we three went, writing together.

Fingernails

Other people can type with long fingernails. not me.  

I grew up in the era of short fingernails, well kept, was what you did. Also I grew up with typewriters. 

So when fingernails get annoying, I crop them short again.