(A clandestine photo I took of the ceiling of the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, in 2008. Photos are not allowed, so I shot this with my camera sitting on my lap. Shh...) <span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;...

The Joseph Story House is located in the heart of downtown Salem, Massachusetts near the Common. It was built in 1811 for Joseph Story, an accomplished lawyer, who that same year was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court at the age of 32.  He is most...

One of my annual holiday traditions is to bake up several batches of decorated sugar cookies. And not just any old cookie - Martha Stewart's sugar cookies. Several years ago, I purchased a cookie baking kit from the website. It included a recipe book,...

It was a beautiful - although very cold - day out yesterday and I did a little drive-by shooting in my town of pretty holiday house decorating. Enjoy!           I'm thinking ice rink?  Seems a tad cold for a dance floor.   Decking the docks as...

I'm a huge fan of church conversions - or really any type of building conversion. I went on a Christmas House tour in Newburyport, MA several years ago when I lived there and there was a fantastic antique house that had once been a school house, a...