Your doyenne is always diffident about asking you for financial aid, cher public, but recently a few of you inquired how you can help out. It’s easy, actually: using PayPal, you can donate as much (or as little) as you choose (or do not choose) using any major credit card. (For more information on PayPal go here.) Just click on the button below to start winning your wings.

Addendum: with the encouragement of the cher public, I have moved this important note about amazon.com from the comments section here into the main body of the blog:

You should note that La Cieca is credited for any purchases you make in an a shopping session begun by linking from any amazon ad on this page. For example, let’s say you click on the link for Franco Corelli: Prince of Tenors. You’ll be taken to the item page for this book at amazon.com. You don’t have to buy this item, but you can continue to search and shop on amazon.com for as long as you like. Anything that you put in your shopping cart during that session will count as a “referral” from parterre.com and La Cieca will get her commission.

To put it simply, the next time you want to buy something on amazon.com, don’t just type “amazon.com” in your browser. Instead, go to parterre.com and click on any amazon.com link there, and then do your shopping. Your greedy doyenne will be most grateful!

And here’s a handy shortcut to La Cieca at Amazon. (Right-click on the line and select “add to favorites” or “add to bookmarks.”)