I’ve alluded before to the fact that we love dog things – paintings, figures, folk art.  So I’m thinking it would be fun to feature one of our dogs here on the blog each week.  (A blog dog — say that 3 times fast!) It will be interesting to see how many weeks it will [...]

 
One of the things we did this weekend was walk down Fifth Avenue in NY and look at the holiday windows.  Some were wonderful and some were gaudy, some charming and some just over the top.  But it got Steven and I thinking about Christmas shopping in general, and the contrast between shopping for new and for [...]

I am looking forward to Thursday.  Are you?  How, even in our fractured and sometimes divisive society, could anyone take exception to Thanksgiving?  Family, food, gratitude.  An awesome combination, in my mind.  The more I think about it, the more I believe Thanksgiving is above reproach.  I understand that some people don’t approve of eating [...]

 
Steven and I just can’t own enough dogs.  Really.
But before you begin imagining the noise and confusion, the giant bags of dogfood, the shedding…let me clarify.  We do love dogs – the real, living kind – and we have one that we adore.  (check our Personal page for pics of our Princess.)  But the kind of dog [...]

 
Steven and I have collections of stuff.  We have a really big and disorganized collection of stuff that we call our home, but within that we actually have some more specific, edited collections.  And some of those collections are about to get a new home!
In our bedroom we have had for years an old glass-front cabinet [...]