I always wanted a hall tree, a specific place to hang the family’s coats, deposit their hats and gloves, ditch the damp umbrellas. I’d like to have had an antique one, one to match the age and demeanor of our home, but when we moved here 40 years ago, there was too much to do, […]
I can’t say that boredom has finally gotten to me, that the stay-at-home of Covid-19 has had me roaming the house looking for Things To Do, but I have cleaned out the coat closet. My impetus was more the fact that I couldn’t easily hang my winter coat: it kept falling off the end of […]
As the calendar summer draws to a close, it’s time to update my clothing experiment. Back in the spring I started hanging the tops I’d worn “backwards” in my closet since I reach for the same items over and over. The bottom line was: if I wasn’t going to wear a particular top (shorts, crops, […]