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Why We Build: Staying in Our Place
Shop for Home and Gifts at Tabula Tua
We were taken by a number of items at the Tabula Tua website notably the dog bone frame, the geography glasses by Catstudio, Sushi set dinnerware, a Bingo Tray by Annie Modica, and Juliska's Isabella glass canisters. Vietri bakeware, Coltellerrie Berti handmade knives (including cigar cutters) and a Botanical Leaf trivet are included in the accessories collection.
A Cable Calamity
Whatever happened to the concept of rewarding long-standing customers for their loyalty? Don’t ask the cable companies. They haven’t a clue.
For the past two years I had been a faithful client of Cable Company X. I had been happy with the service — well, as happy as anyone can be with any cable service — and I expected our relationship to continue until I got old. Oh, wait. I’m already old. Well, I figured I’d hang in at least for the foreseeable future. And they would have been delighted with that arrangement, as long as I agreed to a fat fee increase — forty dollars per month more than the already hefty sum I had been paying.
Good Things Come in Threes: A Trio of Rosés – Two Sparkling, One Still
Rosé season is in full bloom, and there are more rosés than ever to choose from. As the world changes so quickly and there are fewer and fewer constants to count on, I cherish reasonably priced wines that I can turn to year after year. Just as there are certain dishes I try to make every season, there are certain rosés I like to revisit. Here are three perennial favorites, all from producers to rely on:
A Place in the City
I call it a cat-sitting gig but, in truth, the two weeks I spend in a friend’s apartment on New York’s upper west side in June, sieving the litter box and purring back at a feline, is the only way I’ve found to fulfill my lifelong fantasy of living in Manhattan.
I’ve wanted to live in the city since the mid-1960s when, as a college girl from New Orleans, I spent four years in Poughkeepsie and took every possible opportunity to explore New York City. My plan was to live and work there happily ever after college.
However, life, as it tends to do, unfolded differently and I returned to Louisiana. New York became a destination for business trips with my husband or the occasional holiday — always exhilarating, whirlwind visits, but never long enough. Shortly after my husband died, however, I learned that my friend Wendy needed company for her cats Happy and Eva while she and her husband spent time at a family cottage on the Maine coast. Did I want to stay in her apartment?
Which is how the longstanding desire to live in the city, even if only for two weeks every year, came to be a reality.
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