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, [...]
Not too long ago, I was strolling the streets of Santa Fe beneath that legendary New Mexican blue sky when a wedding procession emerged from the doors of the 1878 gothic Loretto Chapel. Holding [...]
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 [...]
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., [...]
