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I wasn’t much of a football enthusiast in college; I never really grasped the devotion of these obsessed fans.  But then my son, in his sophomore year at Boston College managed to persuade us that tailgating was a rite of passage and we, as his parents, should take responsibility for abetting this tradition.  So for several years, we motored to Boston to take part in the home game revelry nurtured … Read More


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Innovation ~ Cass and Co.

Architecture that challenges perception has always been a source of creative inspiration for me.  Last year, while traveling in New Mexico, I happened upon the Miraculous Staircase in the Loretto Chapel in Santa Fe. Built to solve the everyday problem of how to access the choir loft without interfering with the space in this tiny Gothic church, the carpenter accomplished a feat of engineering that boggles the imagination.  Turning 360 … Read More


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This week’s Intimate Discovery:  Yummie Brings Shapewear Out of The Closet

It is not too often that I can identify a new merchandising channel in the Intimate Apparel Industry, so you can imagine my excitement when I saw the pioneering lifestyle initiative recently launched by the innovative fashion solutions brand, Yummie Tummie by Heather Thomson.  Simply named Yummie, this emerging brand now available to lingerie stores at … Read More


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Lately, I have been on a classic reading binge:  Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and Frankenstein to name a few.  I am sure I read these tomes in school, but somehow, any memory of the virtues these books possess that have allowed them to remain relevant and even gain in popularity through the generations had escaped me.  Thus, my motivation to delve beneath the antique writing style to understand … Read More


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