Words fail me when it comes to describing my recent trip to Marrakech, so I will let these images do most of the talking. Certainly there are magnificent sights to be seen - in sharp contrast to the realities of daily life in a hot, dusty, bustling city. The locals [...]
Oh Paris, how I have missed you. We'd met only twice in my youth, but how I longed for you. With only a few decades of separation, we somehow managed to find 2.5 glorious days together last week. Your weather was perfection, and my schedule was wide open. Not a [...]
Perhaps I'm not the first person to tell you this, but La Brea Avenue is happening. There is a rebirth, a resurgence. The neighborhood is coming alive. Visit the Tar Pits if you wanna or run that errand at The Grove, then head on over for some unique shopping and a [...]
While waiting for a vendor at a job site, I took my dog for a walk in my client's neighborhood. The area is quaint, set with variety of styles of houses that sit fairly close together. As I headed down the block, I noticed that the street gradually crept down [...]
Nestled in a scorchingly hot, flat, middle-class neighborhood of Sylmar is a shade covered patch of land entirely filled with the work of Roy Nagatoshi and his father. Roy at work. Of course, most of my Bonsai education is firmly rooted in The Karate Kid, but one step [...]
It is all things summer camp around here these days and the beginning of my daughter's first summer away from home. After so many years of daydreaming about my summers spent in Maine, it is actually time for my daughter to follow in my footsteps. A real dream come true. [...]
An early Saturday morning alarm, two kids and my mother in tow, we headed north to Santa Barbara for the Raoul Textiles Sale. Afterwards, a little worse for the wear, as if right out of a stampede at Filene's, I was happy to discover the Carpinteria Growers Association hosting free [...]
Several months ago I started experimenting with an idea that had been brewing for some time. I am super pleased with the results and so was Harbinger since they featured two of the pillows in their window for the Traditional Home Bunny Williams event on Tuesday night. [...]
People always ask me what it was like to grow up in New Orleans, and I usually remember MY childhood. The places we frequented, the faces, the normalcies of everyday life are what come to mind - not much different from anyone else's upbringing. I don't think about Mardi Gras [...]
