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“Kids do well when they can.” A friend said this to me when my children were toddlers, and it set me free. She’d been reading a book about behavioral challenges in children. In addition to some innate physiological predispositions, she learned that some children are especially challenged by certain foods, fatigue, and overstimulation. She was [...]
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The cheapest home renovation I know of is totally free. Here’s how to do it: put things “out of place.” In my architecture practice, I call it Recession Chic™. It’s the design version of a Staycation. Start by lifting framed pictures off their hooks and moving them to different spots. Your eye will ka-boing like [...]
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Move over, Vera Wang and Michael Kors. The new IT guy in fashion is Reslience. His work can be found in magazines and websites everywhere. Just look for his logo: a wagging finger. Resilience’s marketing team plays on proven techniques for volume sales: convincing consumers that they’re not enough. Buy Resilience, so it goes, and [...]
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It’s good to get an injury now and then, just a little one to remember the sting of a scrape or the itch of a scab. I bandage my children’s knees, pull ticks from their necks, and extract splinters from their thumbs. If the razor grazes my ankle every now and then, it reacquaints me [...]
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“And then there was one…” This was my fear. Like so many people around the world, on September 11, 2001, I tore through my mental Rolodex wondering if those I knew in New York were safe. Several college friends had studied at the business school and had good jobs in New York. Did they [...]
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Fisher-Price Landscape Architects is pleased to announce its new partnership with Boo Radley Yard Maintenance. Mr. Radley brings to FPLA his extensive experience in peeling porch paint, rotten railings, and weedy front walks. His work, though recognizable in any season, builds to a compositional crescendo in late summer. He’s completed projects at every home in [...]
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Three weeks ago I submitted a cover proposal to The New Yorker magazine. It’s a project that’s spent most of the last ten years in my office “to-do” drawer. This winter I moved the cover to the front burner. It’s about 9/11, and I wanted to pitch it for the magazine’s September 12, 2011 issue. [...]
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For the last two decades, mudrooms have been all the rage in residential design. For good reason. Imagine a single, orderly repository for all the coats, backpacks and shoes that can overtake a home. But what to do if a home’s entry offers only a puny coat closet? Deconstruct, that’s what. Not the closet, but [...]
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