It started with candle sticks, about 9 years ago. I was 5 months pregnant and, being certain my life would be thrown into chaos once I...

It started out as necessity. We would visit the furniture stores and dream about being able to afford their wares. Then, armed with...

Around the age of thirteen I started feeling different. Other. I just didn't fit in. Of course, this made me a typical teenager - a fact...

Anyone who has lived in Mexico is familiar with its crafts. They are inevitable. On the street, in markets, woven through peoples...

I have always loved family vacations. I know they are complicated, and exhausting...  but I treasure the increasingly rare opportunities...

We would get home from school around around 2.30 and have lunch as a family. And then the afternoon would loom, apparently endless, in...

My first few years in NYC were incredibly exciting. I was living alone for the first time and, also for the first time, making a decent...

As part of her job, my sister regularly supervises graduate theses at Columbia university. On several occasions, she has told me that...

One of my favorite things to do is search online for unique objects. During my free time, for hours on end, I obsessively search for...

My family has always been somewhat obsessed with interiors. I have plenty of memories of my parents planning and executing renovations,...