Winding up one chapter and starting another. And a little gift in the ivy.
My Last Post: An End And A Beginning!
The Beginning
It began with an old 286 computer like this. It was huge. We’d plug in a floppy disk with a mortgage calculating program that would crash the computer every other time we’d run it.
The Search
Apartment hunting was a part-time job. To this day I can walk past buildings on the Upper West Side and remember those long-ago peeks into private lives.
The Deal
Becoming--to my astonishment--a homeowner. A Manhattan homeowner that is--constantly searching for more space! And guess what? We find it! Under that white space above that kitchen counter.
The First Renovation
Moving in-although you can tell from the ladder that we're still finishing the renovations. Life always moves just a little faster than your contractor!
First Comes Love …
Do you have any idea how complicated a staircase can be? And what that means in a race against time? Meaning contractor vs. baby? What happens, as it so often does, when the great partiers become ... parents.
My Grandmother’s Doors
Bringing Vena Hemstock Rice's doors--and all they represent--from Wisconsin to New York.
Virtual Kate
How having office space helped convince my managers to let me become the kind of worker I wanted to be: a telecommuting mama!
It’s Crowded! It’s Chaos! Enter 1E
Every New Yorker has the same real estate dream. You wake up, and your apartment has grown--it has a new room, or an entire new wing. We lived that dream with 1E!
More Stairway Adventures
The lumber yard truck forklifts the massive. 20-plus-foot joists that will frame the stairs in front of our building. It leaves. And we can't get them in the building.
