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Although the saying is "In like a lion and out like a lamb," March is actually making a fairly peaceful entrance.

The same could be said about my reader e-mails, which have been a little slow this week, although I'm never sure if it's a lull in the messages or just my new and "improved" spam software sending them to oblivion before they reach me.

But those that have been received cover a wide range of previous topics, so I thought I'd include some today.

http://www.hitchny.com/ - Tanna Cholas is the publisher and editor-in-chief of Hitch, New York. She saw the column on "everything bridal" (Feb. 11) which included a site from the United Kingdom. She was prompted to write: "I just saw your article in the Cincinnati Post and wanted to alert you to another site that might be of interest to your readers. (It's) a bit closer than the UK and filled with wonderful hip ideas to make a wedding truly personal and unique.

http://www.fabulous-bridal.com/ - Closer still is Donna Salyer's Fabulous-Bridal located in Covington. Several of you took the time to scold me for failing to mention her site in that same Feb. 11 column. Bookmark it if only for the calendar of upcoming events and trunk shows featuring designer names like Peter Langner, Vera Wang, Justin Alexander and Alfred Sung.

www.gluckman.com/Naadam2003.html - Turning to more "manly" pursuits, Roger D. wrote after my Feb. 8 column about the Winter Games from Turin/Torino to tell me about this article (and several others) featuring "Mongolia's Manly Sports," horse riding, archery and wrestling. Calling the summer competition "the world's second oldest Olympic games," the story by Ron Gluckman puts you right in the action and the photos are pretty amazing.

By the way, of the notes received concerning my comments on the Olympics, specifically Bode Miller, Michelle Kwan and the NBC coverage, several of you expressed dismay that Kwan was unable to skate but felt she had earned the right to try. NBC's coverage was only mentioned once by an Erlanger woman who "longed for the sweet coverage of CBS during the 1994 games in Lillehammer, Norway."

I mostly agree about the coverage, but I seem to remember an enormous amount of media energy spent on a couple of skaters named Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan. That's another Olympic page I could do without. Oh and, none of you mentioned Bode - which is probably just as well.

http://www.sproutpeople.com/ - I'm not sure if this request was sent in response to Saturday's column on gardening, or just happened to come on the same day because, as Kathy P. of Florence wrote, "It's that time again." The first grade teacher requested a site on how to sprout seeds both for her students and her own children so they could "watch the magic together."

This is my favorite sprouting site. It's colorful. It's filled with information. And you've got to love any place that claims to carry "the wildest and coolest sprouting seeds and supplies on this planet." And then follows that up with "everything there is to know about every sprouting seed imaginable! And the ability to purchase them all."

Jan Perry is a Kentucky-based freelance writer for The Post. She welcomes your questions and comments and is always happy to include them in future columns. Write to her at SiteSeer2K@aol.com.