June 4, 2018 “I want to paint,” my daughter tells me. Paige, age 25, and her long-term boyfriend and family fixture, John, also 25, are buying their first house, in Texas. “Of course you do,” I say. Being my daughter, Paige is already remodeling even though the sale isn’t official for two weeks. “What color […]
May 30, 2018 Occasionally, I write a column that pulls a ripcord of replies. A piece I wrote several weeks ago about my humbling exchange with a 90-year-old reader, who graciously chewed me out for making her feel guilty about clinging to her beloved belongings, was one of them. She was responding to a […]
May 25, 2018 When a museum director called me a few months ago to ask if I would give the keynote talk at a community event she was planning, I thought, why me? “You want me to talk about downsizing?” I asked, making sure the caller, Emily Blaugrund Fox executive director of Albuquerque Museum Foundation, […]
May 7, 2018 If all goes well, and so far it hasn’t, congratulations may soon be in order. I’m about to be a house grandma. My daughter Paige, 25, and her long-term boyfriend, John, also 25 and a family fixture we have known since they rode the school bus together in ninth grade, are looking […]
May 1, 2018 “They cost how much?” DC, my husband, asks, as he twists a finger in his ear hoping he hadn’t heard correctly. “With or without the container?” I ask, to stall before I repeat what I’d paid for the tall grouping of white potted orchids that now graced our dining room table. I […]
April 24, 2018 As a journalist who’s spent the bulk of her career as a health reporter and home design columnist, I’m intrigued when the topics of health and home intersect. New ways to improve my home’s health seemed especially important after the last flu season came through like Typhoid Mary causing me to view […]
April 16, 2018 I never meant to hurt anybody, especially not a sweet old woman. But it happened. Her first email arrived last week telling me, gently but clearly, that I had made her feel bad, or, more specifically, guilty for her desire to keep the things she loved around her. “Maybe it was the […]
April 9, 2018 When the kids are screaming, the dogs are scuffling, the television is blaring, your spouse is cranky, and your workaday world has frazzled your last nerve, the best medicine is — the porch. A magical space that lets you both get away and be at home, a porch is life’s decompression […]
Before After April 2, 2018 I’ve heard designers say a bazillion times: The best home interiors reflect those who live there. Uhhh, I want to add, that all depends who lives there. Though I agree in spirit with this comment, I have seen many interiors that are dreadful precisely because they reflect their inhabitants a […]
Before After March 27, 2018 Parties, like the one DC and I hosted last week, have many upsides: You meet interesting people. You help a cause. And you get a kick in the derriere to do those home improvements you’ve put off until the return of Halley’s Comet. All to say, for my newly redecorated […]
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