During a recent conversation with a friend about the frustrations of house upkeep, she shared with my husband and I a practice that she has employed to help keep her sane during the busy days of the week, when the house can get away from the best of us. There is one place in her [...]

Yes, it really has become a verb in our family. Where else is a hungry family who is reorganizing many areas of their house go for a hotter-than-Hades afternoon? It has a restaurant with decent and resonable food, AIR CONDITIONING, places to wander and play, and lots of rooms to look at for ideas…. It [...]

Oftentimes, when great progress is being made on a project, a level of fevered excitement can waft in and settle around your head like a thick mist… just as you were really hitting your stride. Things are looking great! Change is visible! Wow, I see what we have  been working so hard to achieve! I [...]

During the past year I was asked to help redesign the look of Penn Medicine at Radnor’s Radiology office. What a great challenge and opportunity! The goal for the newly outfitted Women’s Imaging suite of waiting areas was to create a soothing and feminine environment for the clients that come to have their annual mammogram [...]

If given a wad of ones, what in your house would you “buy back” for a dollar? Would you re-invest in that vase that has been sitting on the counter for a couple of months since you received flowers for your birthday? How about the casserole dish that is dusty and lonesome sitting in the [...]

I was a little grumpy this morning. Things to do, things yet not done, things I should have done, things that could have been done differently?, things to be put away, the thingee that needs to be fixed, “the thing is…”, thing one and thing two…. SO, I went out to the porch to admire [...]