I am such a house-hunting hussy. Just last month I was bemoaning the buyers who left us at the altar and now that our house has sold to someone else I’m flirting with every possible dwelling that comes my way. Actually, not every possibility. Some of the options have been so bad I’d be afraid [...]
For the weekend. . . Check out Jonah Lehrer’s fascinating article in the March 26th issue of The New Yorker about designer Roger Thomas and how his interiors revolutionized Las Vegas casino décor. Lehrer quotes Thomas, who maintains a weekend home here in Northern California, as saying that he doesn’t design interiors based on focus groups, [...]
After the full-court press to beautify our home for its first open house this weekend, it was a relief to go play. And by play, I mean stay away from our beautiful house and find amusements elsewhere. We took in some movies (Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, yes!) and traveled across the bay to check [...]
So after a long day of viewing places to rent we got a call from our realtor telling us that our buyers had dropped out. Three weeks into our courtship they were dumping us without warning. Their realtor didn’t leave an explanation in her abrupt email saying they wanted to cancel the contract. But eventually [...]
Look at Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs pyramid and you’ll find “security of property” in the second tier from the bottom, right above food and sleep. When you don’t have a place to live, it’s hard to move into loftier states of being where you worry about solving world hunger or even making lunch dates with [...]
This warm, dry January has me feeling out of sorts. I’ve lived in the Bay Area for 30 + years now and so I realize that winter here is not like winter where I grew up. Alas, there will be no snow days where I’m stuck indoors creating God’s Eyes out of pencils and random bits [...]
