Sneaking around in the basement, and where it landed me
Teenagers. Basements. It’s the perfect recipe for trouble. I once did my own teenage basement maneuver. And well, my children, it got me sent to boarding…
Sleeping with a stranger: via AirBnB
Meet Jon. Meet his dog Pilot. Jon’s a filmmaker. He grew up in Washington D.C. He lives there today. He knows all the best insider places…
Does Pinterest stimulate oxytocin production?
Over the last three months I organized a lot of overdue home interior fix-ups. Nothing truly major, yet this series of projects has had a surprising…
Combatting the New York business trip blues: finding fun even on a quickie
The crying shame of business travel is this: you go to cool places where you can spend entire days and see nothing but conference rooms. Never…
New Orleans: An Oddball Photo Tour
Most of our family travel these days is about checking out colleges. We just extended a Tulane University visit into a whole weekend so we could…
Random photo tour of Detroit
I’m on a plane back from Detroit, posting another random photo tour. The themes of this one are: Phoenix rising from the ashes: Detroit’s indie entrepreneurs,…
Girls, Girls, Girls!
As a girl, I formed many notions about entrepreneurship by devouring every biography in my elementary school. I loved the stories about how a single person…
Retail discounts…often just a modern day shell game
I was in Bed Bath & Beyond recently and the prices seemed high. I paused and thought about their generous return policy, the expense of the…
Ten years of fashion mistakes, out the door
Thanks to an October snow storm, the power is kaput at my house. I must be very restless, because my neatening up one pile of jeans…
It’s not your imagination…those fake ghosts are multiplying like rabbits.
I have some new neighbors. They moved to Massachusetts from DC. Last weekend,as I was out in our front garden planting tulips (Eco Tulips!) the new…
Jules Pieri 