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Evan and I are back from a long weekend spent in Carefree, Arizona for a friend’s wedding. (Click for enlargements!) A series of errors on the part of the car rental company culminated in us riding around in a red Ford Mustang. If there were [Read More]

Pardon all the mess, but we were able to move our couch and ottoman in this past weekend :) We are so excited! :) Things to tackle this week: Finish baseboards in master bedroom Buy floor trim pieces for rooms Stain floor trim pieces Install floor [Read More]

You are my favorite person ever. I’m so lucky I get to hang out with you every single day. Happy anniversary, Evan. I love you like crazy. [Read More]

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Saturday night, our Valentine dinner was lovely and I had a great time. We had 18 adults, 8 kids and 2 babysitters!  Thanks to all who came and brought food.  Here are some pictures from our lovely night.  Forgive my camera, it does not like low l [Read More]

Last night, Evan suggested that my siblings, my mother and I recreate the photo I posted yesterday. We did our best, but only my brother Gordy was able to truly capture the essence of his expression from the original. The rest of us look too happy! I [Read More]

Christmas 1975. I’m the little one. In a mere 12 hours I will be with everyone in this photo, sharing glögg and my mother’s meatballs and my brother’s gingerbread cake. My sisters will have their children with them, and Christ [Read More]

I took this pledge for the first time last year, and I will do so again this holiday season! Please encourage your friends and family to buy (and create!) handmade gifts. Whether you do so online, in local shops, or in your own kitchen, the gift of [Read More]

Back in June, I started a blog with my good friend Adam to document renovations I was urging him to make on his house. I’m so happy to see that he has finished (well, minus the furnishings) some pretty amazing work on his bedroom, and I have to [Read More]

(Yeah, I still call my mother Mommy. Want to make something of it?!) [Read More]

Sunday was a wonderful, sweet day. I got to see Nicole for the second time this year (!), which was great in itself, but spending time with her in our Upsate New York hometown, Rhinebeck, was truly the icing on the (belated birthday) cake. We had a [Read More]

Do you inscribe the books that you give as gifts? It’s a practice I think has fallen out of fashion, but I’d like to see it come back. I found this little Modigliani book while I was reorganizing my work area, and I opened it to find a [Read More]

Veggie burgers and onion rings at SoHo Park, and an amazing painted door on Broadway. Suddenly, it feels like Fall might be coming soon. (Remind me of this in a week when it’s roasting hot and humid again.) [Read More]

Remember Two-Face? The enemy of Batman? Maybe you folks aren't Batman freaks like I am....Two-Face was the former District Attorney of Gotham City, a real law-and-order type and a personal friend of Batman. But then some evildoer threw acid in his [Read More]

My friend Steve* came over this morning, children Stevie* and Letitia* in tow, to finish installing my kitchen faucet.The supply lines he got at Lowe's yesterday fit fine. Unfortunately, the ferrules that came with them were too long.The three of the [Read More]

About sixteen and a half months ago, I hied me to my area Home Depot and purchased a new American Standard single-handled faucet for my kitchen sink.This was to replace the old Price Pfister single-handled faucet that was on the sink when I bought th [Read More]

I have a another great friend, Adam, who also lives way too far from me—300 miles away, in Potsdam, New York. Adam and I have lived together, worked together, gone to see Siouxsie and Rufus together, laughed together and cried together…b [Read More]

Tomorrow is my last day at my first, real job. Until this week, I’d been giddy about leaving the job and starting the new one, about working just one job and working from home all but one day a week. I have big plans for my life-after-9-to-5 & [Read More]

Last night I got to see my oldest (and prettiest!) friend, Nicole McConville, for the first time in far, far too long. We grew up together (I’ve spared both of us the embarrassment of including any pre-1992 photos in that collage), but now we [Read More]

Our friend Steve - Alan's known him since they were in 2nd grade - married his fiance Stiliana yesterday in a beautiful wedding at the University of California Faculty Club.  Everyone was a bit worried because the weather was iffy (slightly overcas [Read More]