Would a year of confinement move us to the other side of normal? The answer a resounding yes! This year in home decor and fashion is the equivalent of roots…

I’ve prepared this sampling of fall for all of you just as I would welcome friends into my home for an intimate dinner.

What if a building – a structure, domain, dwelling – is more than the sum of brick, nails and wood it’s made of?

As a new season approaches, we either welcome or condemn the change. Personally, I am entering into my decorating, staging, pumpkin-displaying happy place!

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This is a tribute … a love letter to my mother.

As the next year in my life approaches, a sense of true gratitude, pride and total surrender washes over this older, wiser version of myself. True and real surrender to the grace I have been given to live this part of my life in more light than the first half.

There is a truth in the rough surfaces.

Recently there was a pitcher … so special, so rare I flinched every time someone picked it up.

You know, it’s funny we get so caught up in what we THINK is important, and then, quite by chance, you realize you are but a grain of sand in the ocean.