I know there is one for ceramic, I don’t know if it is the same name. The one I am learning is to repair clothes. But I do have the one you mention in the back of my mind to one day learn. I also like the idea, and I have a wine glass that broke its leg. I don’t know if it only works for ceramics, or can work with glass. I will pass that bridge when the time comes.

Recently I’ve been dabbing into visible mending and Sashiko(Japanese visible mending).

Physically: I like my feet 😂 They don’t seem to age and don’t fluctuate with my weight. And they get me in lots of places!

Personality trait: I like to learn new things. I hope I get to have this until I die.

It’s so cute! I am always fascinated with the artists that work digitally. I tried it a little, but I find it quite difficult and not natural for me at all. It involves too much of the brain. I rather throw paint on the canvas and let my hands guide me. How many hours do you put into a finished drawing?

I don’t have a favourite, but it is important to me to try out new things and invent and tweak recipes. It is all about keeping it new and interesting. Right now I am in a phase of learning to cook authentic Chinese (some of the dishes, the Chinese gastronomy is impossible to learn completely), we like to eat it and I want to know how to do it. I am even watching Chinese cooks without English translation and hope to guess what the ingredients are. 😂Or at least techniques.

I like to bake sourdough bread, we never buy bread anymore. Unless I am sick and cannot be bothered to do it. I like to bake cakes, but we don’t eat sweets generally, so it is not very often. I did fancy cakes in the past too, with fondant flowers and all that. Now I focus more on taste.

My soups are pretty awesome. We do eat a lot of soups, so I do get to experiment.

We do like to eat and I do like to feed people. Gatherings with friends always mean a lot of food. I am famous for offering too much food. But I always say that it is good to have leftovers, so you are set for a few days. I also give away food to the guests if they want. If we are invited to someone’s house, I always bring something baked.

I am lucky to have found my husband that loves eating more than I do(and I love cooking more than he does). It is such a treat to see him enjoy my food. If we stay apart a few days or weeks, I usually don’t bother to cook too much. I make a big pot of soup, some stew or something, and eat a whole week of those and slightly tweak the seasonings or pairings so that it does not get boring.

That was a long story…I can talk about food for hours.

Well, my everyday creative outlet is cooking. Today I just summed up ingredients to make some Chinese style noodles with some veggies, Spanish jamón, sesame paste, lots of sauces and spices. My husband was thrilled. I had a migraine, so for me it was more just stopping the hunger.

But cooking is the easiest way for me to be creative in any state I am in. To paint, sew or other things, I need a good rested body and good mood.

I think so, when I am ill. My sweat might smell different, or my breath. But I am not that superhuman. But there are some bad people smell that kind of repeat themselves. But I did not investigate these things. I know animals can detect some illnesses, maybe through smell.

The sense of smell also affects the taste. I can taste a lot of ingredients in an unknown dish. I also cook very well, maybe because of that. When I got Covid and the sense of smell went for a while, food tasted like nothing. It was kind of horrible to have to eat. I would focus on textures and spiciness.

I have a very powerful sense of smell. I can tell who slept in my bed if I know that person well. It happened to me once in a college dorm, where a roommate slept in my bed while I was home for the weekend.

I can smell tobacco from far away too. Before anyone notices it.

I know if the cake in the oven is ready, by the smell it sends inti the living room, which has a dining room and a hallway in between.

Unfortunately, I can also smell bad smells very powerfully.

I have this too! I was never wrong when somebody looked like an ok person, but I just did not like them. I can read a lot from people’s non verbal communication. And I see a lot of things before them being officially revealed. I learned to trust my instinct.

I’m sleeping much better lately and I think my hormone levels are getting better.

I don’t understand how you make this a political thing. Do you by chance live in the US? There is a lot of polarisation there.

As a woman myself, I think some people understand feminism differently than others. I don’t agree with women that just spit hate on men simply because they are men. Feminism is about empowering women to be whatever they like and be equal to men in society, relationships, family, work. I had my fair share of discrimination in my life based on my gender, and I constantly fight against it, but that does not make me just hate men by default. I know a lot of men that are on the same page with me about how we should be as a society. And a society where we are all getting along is so much better than a polarised one.

I am lucky to have found a husband that is secure with his masculinity(whatever that means to him), that he does not feel threatened about me having, for example, hobbies like woodworking, or having some muscles on my body. That does not mean I don’t find him masculine, because I do.

We are all shades of masculinity and femininity, and blocking one of these sides from us is just stupid. We are what we are and we can get along just fine with each other with a bit of effort. We don’t have to hate on the ones that are not like us.

And my interests often limit my ability to find good people to be friends with. Though I will admit igot some good friends among them who don’t suck.

To this I say, try new hobbies and activities. Volunteer somewhere, that will make you find nice people. You need to find friends that are awesome for you, not just that don’t suck. Some great friendships can be very healing for the soul.

There are plenty of examples of wonderful men, go find one and make friends with him. Unless you mistreated women constantly, why would you think, by default, that your are awful?

It’s a shame that in some cultures simple friendships men, women, mixed are not accompanied by physical touch too, like a hug. And also being able to talk openly about the struggles, like us women do with our friends. You get a lot from a friend’s hug or them listening to you.