Do you ever stumble across someone and wonder how it's possible they're not more well known? Wonder how it's possible they don't have followers by the bucket full and whole groups of fan girls? And whether their lack of ubiquity is by design? Such were the ponderings I had upon discovering Melissa Lenox's designs. Lenox got her start working at a firm in San Francisco. But it wasn't until relocating to South Carolina that she began ...

Once upon a time, I wrote a post about how to get rid of moths permanently. Four years minus twenty-ish days later, and I'm back writing about the same topic. I might as well just quote myself; save the effort of penning a new opener, right? "It must be that time of year, because everyone and their Pumpkin Spiced Latte has been asking me about moths, and how to get rid of them..." Yeah, well it's ...

I took the day off from exercising yesterday, and decided, instead, to visit a wellness center one of my clients had told me about. At City Sweats, $45 entitles one to a 45 minute private session in their "cabin," a 140° infared sauna. My daily workout is conducted in a room with intentionally very high heat and humidity, so the feeling of being enclosed in a heated cave, in which one is content to drip feverishly ...

The summer between my freshman and sophomore years of high school, I attended a creative writing program on the east coast. There, I befriended a kid named Joel, an affable young man and possessor of an incredibly level speaking voice, who played the guitar and had only minor undertones of the obligatory teenage rebellious streak (a group of us went swimming in the river we had been given strict instructions not to swim in. It ...

In the warm bliss of summer, the last couple months of Favorites fell by the wayside. I have nonetheless been dutifully keeping track of all the items that have made my life and the lives of my clients easier, more organized, and generally amplified, with the intention of sharing the Good News with you. Accumulated over multiple months, they run the gamut from travel-saviors to cable harnessers, and from versatile bins to a game-changing hose. ...