34 posts tagged A propos

The eloquent former bunny BISOUS interviewee Simona McIntyre recently taped a special Mother's Day segment for ET Canada. The television program flew Simona from New York to Vernon, British Columbia to see her mother, Anette, who is currently battling cancer.

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Making house guests a little more comfortable Everyone wants their house guests to feel comfortable during their visit but this can be a little harder to achieve if you don’t actually have a proper room to put them up in. Like a number of people, the bedrooms in our home are full.

Happy Friday Have a good weekend, everybody! Next week, I hope to get some design work done (finally!), specifically design based on negative space. I’m also having a houseguest later in the week so will probably be looking at visitor-related ideas.

Brighten Your Day After etching glass for hours today (FIFTY-FOUR pieces!), I needed something to brighten my day. Following a tip from Apartment Therapy, I took a break from my clean-up and washed the windows in my office/den, inside and out.

Yesterday I moved to a new location in Brooklyn, shaving a good half-hour and one train off the commute. My trains are now numbered, not lettered. I’m staying with friends of friends for eight days or so until I leave on vacation.

Dara vs. Barbie: “…in 2002, Iran introduced its own competing dolls — the twins Dara and Sara — who were designed to promote traditional values with their modest clothing and pro-family stories. But the dolls proved unable to stem the Barbie tide.” Article forthwith.

I was reviewing the brief bios of a group of us going on this trip in May, and they all had higher degrees (MDs, mostly) except for me. It made me realize that it’s been 4 years since I graduated from school- plenty of time to get some kind of additional credential, if that was what one wanted.

One of the roommates from the 3 apartments adjoining the porch just brought me a cup of coffee.