Some days I feel certain that the entity we human beings are meant to understand, beyond all others, is time. We are like so many students, diligently working away under a grand and ominous ticking clock, striving to learn what it means to spend time wisely, to devote the hours of our lives to worthy causes, and to acknowledge the finite nature of time. It is this last lesson that is most difficult for ...

You know what's impressive? When a person hasn't really been in the game all that long and is killing the game. Success on the first day is beginner's luck. High-level work in the first couple of seasons must surely indicate natural prowess. That's what I'm calling what Jennifer Barron has going on, anyhow. Begun in 2015, her eponymous design company is based in Houston, Texas, and Jennifer's work has all the ginger jars and brightly ...

If there's one thing people's home consistently need, and people consistently message me about needing, it's entryway shoe storage. In fact, I can't manage to think of more than five client houses in which shoes and doors haven't represented a majorly disastrous combination. For the most part, when I arrive on the scene, entryways are hot messes. The reason, more commonly than not, isn't laziness, as one might think. Entryway nightmares are usually created by ...

It happened this past weekend: I was putting a load of colors into the washer when I noticed that sweater. It’d been sitting beside the hamper for the last three weeks at least, not being a candidate for home washing, but most obnoxiously requiring dry cleaning. But what a chore is that? And all that trouble for one sweater? (I think I must have been conducting some kind of experiment with myself to see how ...