Chris Nordquist
I think she likes it. Last weekend I made this little planter for our 17 month-old daughter Julia, and I slipped it into her room while she was napping. When she woke up, she pointed at it, smiled, and I got an enthusiastic “Ooooooooh!” It was a simple hardware store craft project, but I got […]
I can’t take any credit for this beautiful host gift, except, possibly, for my taste in friends. It was given to me recently by my friend John, who is a prominent physician in San Francisco and also one of the most creative and thoughtful people I know. Around a bottle of wine, John made a […]
I’ve never been very enthusiastic about houseplants, by which I mean those species of plants meant to live indoors indefinitely. It’s just a matter of personal taste, of course, but, aside from in places like sunrooms, atriums and grottoes (none of which I have), I prefer changing displays of cut flowers and greens. Cut flowers, […]
It’s cold in New York this week. Really cold. Cocoa weather. Ironically, I learned to make good cocoa in sunny California. During my first year in law school at Berkeley, I rented rooms from a wonderfully eccentric Dutch artist. One rare chilly day when I was hunkered down studying for my exams, she taught me […]
