I’m sorry the Golden Gate blog and I have been missing in action. After years of suffering the worst drought in a millennium, California was declared a national disaster area in March of this [...]
The first time I discovered black was when I became terrified of blue, yellow, green, pink, red and orange. That may sound crazy to some of you who know me. But I had finally met my match when two ...
Every winter, the Applewhite elves appear at our client’s homes throughout the Bay Area to deck their halls with holiday cheer. Glowing candles for lighting happy faces, crackling fires for [...]
We’re headed to the Valley of the Moon for Thanksgiving weekend to take a much-needed break from the historic, although occasionally grueling, resurrection of our beloved Golden Gate.
What a week this has been for America. There is so much I want to say but instead I am sharing a poem by Shannon Wills that expresses my feelings more eloquently than I can.
At first, I was inconsolable hearing the news about Golden Gate.
As I wrote in my last blog, Our Golden Gate Adventure (and I thank all of you for your wonderful comments), I was joyful to [...]
Twenty years ago, my husband Marshall and I found, fell in love with, and purchased a funky old white stucco house with a rusty red tile roof. We have been camping out in her rooms on top of a [...]
Ellen and Morey took a risk in mid-life and sold their elegant French country style home in the Presidio Heights neighborhood of San Francisco, giving all their blue and white toile furnishings [...]
August is the month when it seems everything is melting in the heat of the sun. It is the last gasp of summer, when we savor every minute before we go back to whatever we were doing in those [...]
I feel that art is one of the greatest expressions of the human spirit. A home is not complete without it. Oils, watercolors, monoprints, numbered prints, photographs, posters, sculpture, [...]
