The school year is officially underway, and what's also official is that if you don't solidify a plan for managing all your kid's artwork, you and your home are going to be drowning in paper creations faster than you can say "first bell." For the time being, don't worry about artwork of years past that may not be as organized you'd like (read: a hot mess). Start with what's incoming now, get a system in ...

My mom has always said that we had better use her MS to some advantage or there would really be no point. As a result, we've come to casually revel in the ideal parking spots we're guaranteed to get anytime we go anywhere, or the fact that we're given the best seats at any performance venue. I think back in the day she might have even encouraged me to use her illness to excuse mental ...

I am here to tell you: there are some frickin' talented people in this world. Among them, Holly Hollenbeck, Lauren McCoy, and Dani Burka, who collectively make up the design firm HSH Interiors. It's one of their recent projects, a converted church in Mill Valley, California, that has me fawning. Sitting comfortably as it does in that sweet spot between nautical/coastal, industrial, and comfortable, the space is rawther my version of design heaven. Not to mention, HSH's combined ...

So many of the clients that I've worked with have been, in some sense, prone to information clutter. Having an earnest (and in some regards admirable) desire to be informed, to study, and to expand their minds, they and people like them amass reading materials at an uncommonly rapid rate. They're subscribed to numerous magazines and newspapers. They collect things like school newsletters and office memos and scientific journals. They hold onto negligible papers, bookmark ...

Mostly I try not to encourage you in the direction of collecting or finding reasons to keep around old, worn down stuff because you seem fairly capable in that realm as it is. But occasionally there'll come along a concept so all together functional, not to mention easy, that I make an exception. Such is the case with old ladders, which, it turns out, are quite useful in numerous storage and decor scenarios and my ...