Another Porch, Another View
Sometimes you need to change your view. Covid made me aware of that. Confined to our homes much of the time, working remotely, ordering in groceries or meals as we can, assessing potential risk and taking precautions with every interaction, we’ve become hyper-aware of the spaces we inhabit, tweaking, rearranging, updating. Or, sometimes, needing to…
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Clutter
My daughter recently showed me a photo of Kanye West’s ”closet.” It showed five white T-shirts hanging on a rack in front of a brick wall in an otherwise empty space. I said, “Honey, I assure you, that is not Kanye West’s closet.“ But the die was cast: my daughter is a minimalist. Score one…
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A Yellow Georgian
It’s autumn in the Berkshires—a bit chilly on the porch—and the sugar maples on the hillside opposite have unfurled their glorious golden yellow. Especially in autumn, the yellow paint color on this house (which is not my house, but one I’m selling as a realtor) appears to have been stolen from nature. In fact, it…
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The View from My Porch: Starting Point
We think of a view as something outside ourselves, like a landscape. It might be a grand view, a visual OMG — a grand expanse of ocean, the Eiffel Tower, the Rockies, the Grand Canyon, the ruins at Petra — or a quiet one — a deserted beach, a village in a valley, a red…
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