On this wonderfully grey, cold morning (I know, I’m odd, but fall/winter days like this thrill me!) my mind keeps drifting back to my brief trip to Virginia with Mr. M this past Friday.  The drive up in the rented Tahoe was comfortable and free of whining and temper tantrums, and we had 5 1/2 [...]

New York-based interior designer, Ellen Hanson has managed to turn the perception that green sacrifices luxury over onto it’s head.  Her designs are beautiful, artful, and manage to remain practical while bestowing the homeowner with a sense  of absolute comfort and serenity.  She is never one to shy away from color, and incorporates sustainability and [...]

It has been such a whirlwind weekend (if you can count Thursday as part of the weekend)! Thursday night kicked it off with a stop by the opening of Part II of The State Art Collection: Contemporary Conversations, put on by the South Carolina Arts Commission at the 701 Center for Contemporary Art.  Before the [...]

If you’ve visited the Atlanta Botanical Garden, The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, or the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, then you are familiar with the staggering beauty of Dale Chihuly’s glass work (soon, South Carolina will have a Chihuly of it’s own in the Columbia Museum of Art, thanks to it’s Contemporaries affiliate group). [...]

Tomorrow, Mr. M and I will embark on a child-free road trip.  Yes. Child-free. Meaning that we won’t have to listen to Thomas the Tank Engine and Sesame Street DVDs until we move past questioning our sanity, and we won’t have to add extra concern for the condition of the car seat that has been [...]

Some of you may know that we had a scare with our beloved Cosmo a few weeks ago.  Our sweet Golden Retriever/German Shepherd mix had a tumor that had been growing for a couple of years, and we had been told that it was inoperable.  It just kept growing and growing, until our poor guy [...]

So, my fall New York trip has been postponed numerous times in the last few weeks… driving me to sheer distraction.  But what can a girl do when everyone in the family catches the long version of the crud in sequential order, peppered in with a couple of minor medical emergencies, cancelled meetings, and babysitter [...]

Have you ever volunteered with a nonprofit and gone to a meeting in their offices and to find the working environment to be drab and uninviting?  The wonderful people who run charities tend to put their own needs last, which is likely why they got into the business of helping others to begin with.  However, [...]