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’ve been catching up on website comments and e-mails in our last days here in Santa Fe, and I thought this might be a good opportunity to post some of the issues readers have asked me about [...]
Marshall and I are approaching the end of our summer in Santa Fe. The August sun is setting into the Sangre de Christos a little earlier each night, but the high desert days are still hot and [...]
I was recently asked through my Instagram page how I make walls glow. Honestly, I can’t take credit for that. As found in nature only the magic of passing light through color or projecting light [...]
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 love summer in New Mexico when I can spend most of my time outside, and I'm always reminded of how the outdoor rooms we created here are an essential part of our lives in the desert. When [...]
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., [...]
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 [...]
