I am an avid believer in making living spaces appeal to all our senses. Although an impeccable selection of finishes, fixtures, furnishings and fabrics can create beauty in both indoor and [...]
Stephen Hawking, the brilliant physicist, had one goal: to completely understand the universe. I wish the good Professor could have been here this week to explain to us mere mortals how our world [...]
A few days ago, I bought a carton of sour cream, a box of Lipton’s Onion Soup & Dip Mix and a burly bag of Kettle Potato Chips. I was convinced I needed this fattening, guilt-ridden Texas [...]
I woke up in an unbearably dark, gray birthday mood a week ago contemplating the first line in T.S. Eliot’s seminal poem, The Waste Land. Since then, I learned Eliot and his wife caught the [...]
Since we last connected, after the world changed, I’ve managed to pick myself up, dust myself off, start all over again, as the song goes. After all, it is spring!
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 [...]
