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I visited Lowe's today and went straight for the flowers on sale. There’s something deeply satisfying about rescuing flowers on clearance—especially pansies. With their velvety petals and cheerful “faces,” pansies are one of the most forgiving cool-weather flowers you can grow. If you’ve recently picked up a few trailing pansies on sale, don’t worry if they look a little tired. With the right care, you can bring them back to full, vibrant bloom in just a matter of days. Here’

By Veronica Holly | Silver Toile If you read my last post — Older Puppies Learning New Tricks with Claude — you know that I spent a significant chunk of time this week discovering that Anthropic has a free, self-paced learning academy with sixteen courses and certificates of completion. Today, I'm doing something about it. Starting this Friday, April 3rd , I am beginning a structured, one-month journey through the Anthropic Academy curriculum. I've mapped it to my specific p

By Veronica Holly | Silver Toile Let me set the scene for you. It's a Wednesday afternoon. I'm sitting at my desk managing what I lovingly call my "portfolio life" — running a nonprofit, investing in Baltimore real estate, plotting the relaunch of this very blog , building a digital finance education platform, and somewhere in between, still actively job searching for my next senior role. My plate is not just full. It has a second plate stacked on top of it. I've been using A