April 4, 2019 I am a sucker for quizzes. What career should you actually have? (Writer. Phew!) What city should you live in? (Paris. I know.) What animal are you? (Otter. Otter?) So when I was offered an advanced copy of “The DIY Style Finder: Discover Your Unique Style and Decorate It Yourself,” (Harvest House […]
March 25, 1019 If the last time you went out to buy wine glasses you came home with a five-alarm headache and a bag of plastic tumblers, you, like me, have probably asked yourself: Why, WHY are there so many kinds of wine glasses? Do we really need a different glass for every variety of […]
March 18, 2019 If you feel guilty about holding onto excess stuff, relax. You’re only human. Apparently, our dependent relationship with things has been going on for some 2.5 million years. For those of you not great at history, that’s before Walmart opened. I recently read an article in which one Ian Hodder, an archaeologist […]
March 11, 2019 The trees in the yard had grown so big, while the slide in the playground looked so small. The walk to the elementary school seemed far less adventuresome, though the same sidewalk cracks were achingly familiar. I looked for the little dark-haired girl who used to climb those trees, slip down that […]
March 4, 2019Castles and cutlery. Foxes and flowers. Soldiers and sayings: Many hands make light work. Royal fetes and pastoral pets. All are the subject of tea towels, everyday household items that deserve far more respect (and better treatment) than I have been giving them — until now. One look at “The Art of the […]
February 25, 2019 Love. We want it. We get it. We lose it. We mess it up. We try again. That’s because love is what binds us, beckons us, blinds us and brings us home. In fact, love is why we have a home in the first place. Without love, a home is just housing. […]
Okay, so maybe the new dog beds were more for me than for Peapod and Pippin, but I thought I was doing us all a favor. Their old beds — two worn, janky, mismatched, biohazards that were a general disgrace to the master bedroom — needed to go. So when I stumbled across the pretty […]
February 11, 2019 Once upon a time, inside a happy yellow house on a tree-lined street, there lived a storybook room. The neglected, attic-like space sat at the far end of the second floor, where almost no one went. From the moment I crossed the threshold of this room while house shopping 18 months ago, […]
February 4, 2019 The bird did me in. It perched on the upper edge of the sculptural wooden headboard as if it had just flown in the window and came to sit a spell. It spoke to me. It sang to me. And I knew from that moment that no other headboard would do for […]
January 28, 2019 Everything I learned about finding a mate I learned from hiring a contractor. So, men and women, listen up. If you’re entering a relationship or looking for one, you won’t find any better advice than this. As a recently remarried woman who has gotten relationships right and wrong over the years, and […]
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