Category: Renovations
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When we renovated our old century home, years ago, the walls had a few surprises for us. I’ve been thinking about them lately, for reasons I’ll get to. In the kitchen, we opened a wall and found creeping jenny growing between the studs. Not dead, dried-up creeping jenny, mind you. This stuff was green and…
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You don’t expect to mourn a book, do you? It happens unexpectedly. You revisit a writer who once helped you see people more generously — someone whose stories widened your moral imagination — and then you unexpectedly run across an interview or something they wrote outside of the story. A casual cruelty. A stereotype. A…
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It’s not paint removal this time, it’s wallpaper removal; nearly as tedious, but not quite, so I’ve just managed to maintain an attitude of gratitude as I scrape. Although we recently moved into a condominium in order to reduce the amount of maintenance we had been doing, the place still needs a little help. Built…
