We decided to set up our Christmas tree a couple days before Thanksgiving this year, and our usual conversations about where to put it started. The few viable spots for a Christmas tree in our house have been reduced over the years with the location of my office in the Living Room, and since having [...]
Category Archives: Featured Posts
Wordsmithery and My Love of Metaphor
November 17, 2010 – 5:08 pm
The time dilation in effect for most of this year is now over. Time has headed over a cliff and is now falling toward December faster than I can hang on to my safety ropes.
Time dilation allowed me to do all sorts of things this year: gardening, complain about the heat, start a compost bin, [...]
Passing the Test
October 19, 2010 – 6:30 am
This week’s Blog Off topic is “Is there a reason to be optimistic?” My take on this is highly personal, as usual. Be sure to visit the other blog participant’s posts. You can find a list of them here: www.letsblogoff.com
Something wonderful happened to me recently. After a long, downtrodden, worrisome year full of angst, [...]
Designers Hate Shopping
October 1, 2010 – 2:14 pm
Shocking, isn’t it? Yes, I know, it is a generalization. There are plenty of designers out there that love shopping, especially with their Jackie O sunglasses, cream linen suits, and their little dogs in tow. I’m just not one of them. Strange as it may seem, since sourcing out product is an integral part of [...]
The Grand Daydream
September 7, 2010 – 6:00 am
I dream of living in a house on a hill. A barn, actually. A repurposed space that was once one thing and is now another. A place with lovely bones. A large, loft-like space with high ceilings, rafters, clerestory windows, big sliding doors with heavy, industrial, exposed hardware, and wood floors.
Barn Conversion by Shed
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Don’t be Afraid of Color
August 26, 2010 – 6:59 am
In this age of nesting, home as sanctuary, aging in place, and all the other –isms of “staying-putted-ness” people are looking for ways to repurpose their belongings, update their homes without spending gobs of money, and achieve a change of scenery without leaving the scene. One of the best ways to do this is with [...]
Are College Grads Ready for the Working World?
August 24, 2010 – 6:00 am
Blog off!
What’s that, you say? Is that some new curse de jour for cranky blog readers and writers to hurl at passersby by? No friends, it’s a term coined by and an activity engaged in by some of my Twitter friends. Since entering the strange universe that is Twitter, I have met a slew [...]
From the Mouths of Babes
August 13, 2010 – 2:19 pm
This is a piece of art made by my 8 year old daughter a few weeks ago. It’s her artistic rendition of the Earth. Thinking she had tried to cover up a mistake, I asked her, “Honey, what’s that big dark blob there on the right?”
She said, “That’s the oil spill.”
I’m No Decorator
July 26, 2010 – 8:15 pm
I began writing this post with the intention of explaining why and when someone should hire an interior designer (and so help me God, I will write it!). It struck me, however, that most people in the general populace really don’t understand what interior design is or what exactly interior designers do. We are perpetually downgraded [...]
