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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 [...]

As I padded down to the kitchen this morning in my gray wool socks and red flannel cat pajamas to pour a cup of white rose tea, I was surprised by a mysterious radiance peeking through the patio [...]

We finally invited friends over for dinner last weekend. I procrastinated on the invitation because it has been miserably cold and rainy here and our very old, heatless home is more suited for [...]