We are memory

I just started work on an upstairs bedroom; it’s going to be our office. I’ve settled on a colour scheme inspired by the changing leaves on our red-twig dogwoods, which have turned rich plum-and-gold. It fits, thematically, with the colours we’ve …

Anticipation

This past weekend we started work on the living room. It needs to be stripped, plastered and painted in time for Christmas. In a fit of holiday optimism, something unprecedented in the years since mom died, my father has agreed to …