When my husband and I bought our current apartment – the first we purchased together -- it was a horrid salmon color. I think the previous owners had it painted when they put it on the market, and the paint job itself was the most beautiful paint job I have ever seen – but the …
We all make them. I count myself lucky that social media didn’t exist when I was a youngster because I know there would be some bad records out there. Kids make mistakes. They say that puberty actually ends when you’re 26 – a break for those of us determined to make as many mistakes as …
That is how my day started: crash! I woke, groggy from lack of sleep, driven out of bed by the sound of the 7 a.m. pounding that greets my weekday mornings now – two massive pile-drivers, pounding away at the bedrock at the end of the block, chipping away a hole for a new foundation …
It is terribly, brutally cold outside. Not as cold as it is in the Midwest, but colder than it has been in this – relatively – milder winter (and my employees from Michigan and Wisconsin always complained that it was colder in New York because of the wind-chill). This morning, my phone said 3° when …
