Several of my clients have had garages on the brain lately, which means that, in turn, I do. It makes sense, seasonally speaking. People are returning home from camping trips and growing frustrated with the lack of an obvious place to stow their sleeping bags and pads, tents and lanterns. Dads are fed up with their cars being scratched by bike spokes. Moms are flummoxed about where to store all the balls and nerf guns ...

Something you should know about me (I'm sorry to have kept it from you so long) is that I have what some might deem "objectively ugly knees." This is a commonly held fact among those who know me best, right up there with my full first name and eye color. In high school, we had a nickname for my knees, which I won't disclose here in deference to the famous actress with whom I share ...

"Can you tell me about this situation?" I asked my client, holding up a basket filled with giant pinecones. "Oh, and before you do, can I tell you there are rivers of sweat running down my back right now? Rivers." She had her shirt pinned up to her bra, and we were both guzzling chilled la croixs as if they were going out of stock. "So hot," she let down her shirt, using it to fan ...

Today's post is off the cuff and spontaneous in nature, i.e. not what I had originally intended to publish. It goes like this: David, AKA City AKA The Man With Whom I Share A Refrigerator spends a considerable chunk of the year outside the United States (you would know this already if you were on the Straw-wagon). For years, he's relied on SIM cards for internet access while traveling. Recently, though (Just when I had ...

We rented a car to explore the island of Rhodes. It's a big island, and also I think David just likes to rent cars in foreign places. As we (he) drove, the silhouetted shells of unfinished houses became harder and harder to ignore. They dotted the landscape from coast to coast. Next to completed homes inhabited by families whose laundry flapped lazily on their upstairs clotheslines were structures still in their construction’s infancy. In the ...