Not her real name but certainly a woman who deserved a clever calling card.  I met her when we bought a co-op far uptown on the West Side of Manhattan.  It was an area the realtors were calling Hudson Heights, but it was really just Washington Heights.  Regardless of...

I'm a firm believer that it pays to acknowledge your weaknesses and remain humble and self deprecating.  What I actually think of myself you'll never know.  You'll find no evidence.  But as a kid growing up in the burbs (and not just any old burb, Fairfield County,...

Renovations.  We've lived through thousands of them.  In fact, it's boring when our apartment or house isn't being invaded by electricians or plumbers or (my favorite) skim coaters.  What's a skim coater you ask?  Well they take uneven or cracked walls or ceilings and...