This is how we make our bed. The other day, a guest asked me why we kept the cushions off-center. We’ve been doing it so long I had forgotten it might look odd or a-symmetrical. But the reason is simple: The right side of the bed is Moy [...]

I used to think of design as being about frills: the fun, the beautiful, the quirky little extras you only have time for when the basics have been covered. But working with people with disability has made me realize that design is so much more [...]

Yesterday morning I woke up with a sharp little pain in my right thumb. I couldn’t figure out what was causing it and it wasn’t bad enough to make me want to do anything about it, so I just ignored it, hoping it would go away. This [...]

The dining table was returned last night – as you can see in the photo, it’s been shined and polished to a high gloss and we can now see our faces in it. Please note the decorated chair. The table was returned just in time for [...]

Our dining table is gone for repairs and polishing. When I sent it off, I was told it would be back in three or four days. It’s been five so far, but it feels a lot longer. We are one of the only families I know that sits down together at [...]

Every parent loves a sleeping child. And a sick sleeping child even more so. Moy Moy has pneumonia again – it’s a regular winter event and we have gotten better at dealing with it each passing year, handling the chest physio, the [...]

Today I walked to the market listening to music – something I almost never do here because you really need to have all your senses on high alert to make it through the streets in one piece. Today, though, I was listening to Leonard [...]