Putting out a contractor
November 26, 2007
By Jeanne Marie Laskas, Special to The Washington Post "You are forgetting your contractor's oath," I say to Dan, my contractor. He throws me a glance of pure impatience. "My what?" he says. "Your oath," I say. "The promise you made on behalf of all the houses throughout the world ...
Humbling to see what history has forgotten
November 24, 2007
By Susan Reimer - The Baltimore Sun I recently returned from a trip to Italy, where I attended the wedding of the daughter of a dear friend and where I pondered, among other things, the meaning of old. It was not just the age of the things I was seeing ...
In the laptop of luxury
November 16, 2007
By Lori Borgman - McClatchy Newspapers Now that the kids are gone, we find ourselves breaking a lot of the house rules. We don't always put our dirty dishes directly into the dishwasher. Sometimes we let them pile up in the sink and get hard and crusty overnight. I occasionally ...
Celebrate the amateur
November 2, 2007
By Shelley Berc Leonardo da Vinci claimed he saw all his paintings in the humidity stains on his walls before ever lifting his brush. Herman Melville stared at Mount Greylock every day until one day it became that devilish cetacean Moby Dick. Children look up at the clouds and see ...