I love to garden. In fact, seven years ago we lived "Intown" (Atlanta) on a third of an acre in an urban jungle, taken over by (the much dreaded) Kudzu and ivy. During that time, I had to make the difficult decision to have our lot leveled to create some...
What would you do on an overcast & semi-blustery day in New York City? It's not shopping. It's not sight-seeing. It's not eating (okay...maybe a little..). Give up? You spend it in the flower district, having all five senses put into hyper over-drive with the...
This post is about a special project that I'm undertaking this week. It's for my daughter. She is the only reason that I am emerging from a temporary design break, while forcing me to sharpen my drafting pencils. While we were fostering her, we decided to make my...
Ah...a week without snow, and I'm not sure I'm really ready. Truth be told, I actually like the white stuff. Since I'm from Upstate NY (near Canada, not NYC), I start wearing sweaters in August and I'm really not ready to put them away until maybe April. That's how my...
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" as Charles Dickens once wrote. This pretty much sums up our 2013. The highlight of our year was the adoption of an amazing little seven year old, we recently shared our story in the media hoping that it will...