Continue Reading Small Houses This week is devoted to the process of making things by hand, and building houses fits the category. In fact, one of…
Continue Reading Shoe Makers I might not be a minor god, but I’m a miniature Imelda, with a conscience. Remember her, the Philipine’s Marcos/monster’s wife, she…
Continue Reading Metal Work I don’t even know what some of the words mean: “The early metalworker was familiar, for example, with hammering, embossing, chasing, inlaying,…
Continue Reading Made by Hand What would I do without my friends? They open up my horizons, over and over again. Just last week a dear one…
Continue Reading In their own Words (and Pictures…) Charleston SC is a city practically devoid of street art. There are a few official murals. To find graffiti you have to scout…
Continue Reading A Walk on the Beach The price you pay for traveling with your mother – or the adventures you experience, depending on perspective – is guaranteed to…
Continue Reading Magnolia Plantation Gone with the Wind was a book that I devoured as a tween, blissfully oblivious to the historic context and fully caught…
Continue Reading Secession Charleston is located at the Atlantic coast, the latter dotted with small islands, some natural and some man-made to accommodate forts that…
Continue Reading 2018 In Judaism the number 18 is synonymous with the word chai, life, formed by the eighth and tenth letter of the alphabet,…
Continue Reading Another Promise Broken A lot of people I know no longer read about the tax bill given that it is now a done deal, thoroughly…
