Anyone who lives in a NYC apartment knows what we covet most is closet space. I listened in awe as a friend and sister tenant shared her minimalist approach. "I save nothing. Discard everything. I could sublet my closet space." With her voice in my head, I entered my own apartment determined to purge...

I have found in life that sometimes a realization does not occur as an ephiphany or a revelation but rather a threading together of events over time that create an acknowledgement that perhaps you have willingly been duped. That has been my sad journey regarding fashion. I can't remember not loving it,...

"What's that face for?", I ask my three year old granddaughter Edie. "It's my unhappy face." "But why an unhappy face? We're going to the park and you love it there." "It's because daddy always lets me climb up the ladders by myself and you don't let me. I am big. I am strong. I can do it without...

Some things just stay with you... I have never gotten a certain remark out of my head. It was said by a brilliant friend who at the time was a professor of International Studies at Williams College. He, his wife, and five children had lived all over the world because of his field and all had become conversant...

We met so last century: Specifically the Summer of The Walk on The Moon and Woodstock. My flight was up a staircase and my iconic walk was not on the moon but up those stairs in a mini-skirt and I didn't have the world as my captive audience but only the rapt attention of one lone man captivated from...