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Reading Off Into The Sunset's avatar

PRE-EMINENT! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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Jack Boulware's avatar

Palomino pencils are a game-changer! I am hopelessly addicted...

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Susie Bright's avatar

I still stand by my original four picks, even though I did this interview, what, a decade ago?

However… with the passage of time, I have a couple new items I literally can’t live without: my brilliant brilliant hearing aids, which changed and colored the world more than anyone would expect. These are not your Grandpa’s ear horns… there’s been a revolution.

I broke both a finger and a toe in 2023– gah!— and I became a habitué of the medical equipment store. Saw PT’s every week . . . You get introduced to so many great tools, even as you’re desperate to get better. Some things I kept: The walking sticks. The shower stool. Who doesn’t want to sit in a shower? Or use it like a magazine rack?

At the moment I need a tool badly — as set of excellent kitchen knives, please. The frickin’ handles on my last ones melted! I’m using a “spare” butcher knife which is so dull and unsharpenable that it should be arrested. If you love your knives and you’re a serious cook, would you tell me what you use? No, I cannot spend 10,000.

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