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At home in California, I have been sheltering in place for three weeks while experiencing the following: utter disbelief and despair, intolerable anguish, abject fear and loathing, pulling my [...]

While the blog has been on hiatus and I have been consumed with the full-time, often overwhelming business of remodeling our home on Belvedere Island, a strange thing happened. The world changed. [...]

I looked up the meaning of soulful after a friend recently asked me, “How do you make a home feel soulful?” Webster’s definition of soulful: full of or expressing feeling or emotion. In thinking [...]

I heard an interview with Gloria Steinem on NPR a while back. She was talking about her book, My Life on the Road. In her early years, Steinem traveled with her family by car throughout the U.S., [...]

I first stumbled onto the existence of creative intuition one brilliant fall day in Big Sur. Recently and rather impulsively I had moved to California. Feeling a bit lost, I surprised myself by [...]

The downtown San Francisco condo my clients bought had all the challenges of a small city apartment, plus a unique one. The high-rise Infinity Tower is an all-glass, clover-shaped structure, with [...]

A few years ago, my best friend Stuart gave me a Christmas gift. I was still in mourning from the summer before, having lost my two beloved Texas Pekepoos, Biff and Joey. The idea of replacing [...]

I am a big believer in making living spaces appeal to all our senses. But no matter how carefully I help people select finishes, fixtures, furnishings and fabrics to create beauty in their indoor [...]

A view of Manhattan peeked through branches thick with cherry blossoms as we approached the elegant old mansion on a cloudy April afternoon. We opened the black wrought iron gate and climbed the [...]

I came down with the hookapooka last weekend. Hookapooka is something that sneaks up in the middle of the night and grabs you by the throat. You don’t know it until you wake up [...]