WASHINGTON — Fred Comer, co-owner of Georgetown antiques store Comer & Co., was a recent online chat guest. An edited excerpt: Q: What are the antique pieces that you find translate most usefully to a modern home? A: A great example is using a sideboard — traditionally a dining room piece — as a bar [...]
A chapter in my sons’ life was about to come to an end. Like all parents who are observing a child’s milestone, my throat was tight, my chest constricted. No, my sons weren’t heading off to kindergarten or college. Neither were they about to embark on a first date or a first job. They were [...]
I admire the bucolic life and fantasize about raising chickens, goats and sheep with a border collie by my side. I’d keep a horse and a duck or two as well. That’s all because I grew up in the city, not on a farm. Caring for all those animals can’t be a reality because of [...]
Since Domino, the beloved shelter magazine, folded in early 2009, its staff members have gone on to lucrative consulting jobs, top editing posts, even television gigs, but none have advanced as swiftly as Michelle Adams. At Domino, Adams was a 24-year-old assistant answering phones and running around Manhattan in search of blankets in exactly the [...]
NEW YORK — A couple of months ago, Susan Gregory Thomas, a writer in Brooklyn, was at a friend’s 40th birthday party when she was approached by a woman familiar to her “from the whole Park Slope mommy culture.” “So you’re Susie Thomas,” the woman practically shrieked upon introduction. “You’re famous.” Taken aback, Thomas asked [...]