September: A perfectly edited garden vision
Green Scene
      What expectations do you have of your garden? Your goal should be to create a cohesive and vigorously flourishing plant picture — a doable creation with plants that know their place and don't roam uncontrollably. The plants you choose to adopt say a lot about you. Some "safe" gardeners rely mostly on annuals.
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Only female in house blitzed again by the football season
Are We There Yet?
• LORI CLINCH
      At long last and without further adieu, the football season is upon us, and as the only female in a houseful of football nuts, I'm handling it about as well as a quarterback who just got blitzed. Whatever the heck that means.
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Stop this automated madness!
Around Town
AMY ROSEN
      Some people may think I am a fairly normal person, but if they only knew that I harbor feelings of contempt based on one's voice alone, a hatred for a life form I have never met in person, they might change their mind. This atypical feeling of hostility that occurs when I hear a particular female voice is a personality flaw that concerns me, but I must admit, it's true.
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