Last winter, just before Christmas and just after spending six months preparing our home for the Holiday Home Tour, and days after having a “kick off Christmas” party with over 100 guests, I discovered myself in bed for five weeks with a mystifying case of Shingles.  My nervous syste/… Read full post »

They called in early April asking if we would be willing to have our home be one of the four houses on the Holiday Home Tour in November.  The Music Festival is a long standing, well respected non-profit that raises oodles of money for their annual three day event held in/… Read full post »

I met her on Makena beach almost ten years ago.  We were on Maui for a month, dropping out.  After a week in Hana at the Sea Ranch we moved into the little beach house between Big Makena and the preserve at the end of the road.  It was a craggy/… Read full post »

Who Am I?  I ask myself this question as I ponder what to post.  I am new to blogging and am giving consideration to who, in here, wants to be the spokesperson for me on this blank canvas, where I have no history, no one grew up with me, no one sees/… Read full post »

When I was barely 21 – oh, that is so long ago – I lived with my carpenter boyfriend in a rental off the river outside of Poughkeepsie, NY.  I landed in Poughkeepsie after finishing high school in Millbrook, a few miles away. 

Millbrook was a fantasy life in… Read full post »

Hi . . . Serenity Says here . . . . Yes, I just made up the name.  This is my first foray into blogging.   

Words for today . . . Observe what I create.  If I believe that I create any or all of what shows up in my life, then doesn't it… Read full post »